On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Sam Michaels wrote:
> I keep getting these in the logs:
> 2001-10-01 23:05:28 15jBYm-0008Nd-00 failed to open DB file
> /var/spool/exim/db/retry: Permission denied (euid=80 egid=80)
What are the permissions on /var/spool/exim/db/retry? And what are the
permissions on the various directories on that path?
> To solve it, I even made the entire directory tree and the file "retry"
> itself mode 777...still no luck.
What are the permissions on the mount of that file system?
> The exim binary is set +s...so it can't be
> that. To make matters worse, all the files in the 'db' dir are 0 bytes and
> the last modification date was June 1st of this year....the day I was
> instructed to delete them and let Exim remake them.
It is clearly failing to access them.
> It doesn't seem to bounce messages correctly, either. It just sits in queue
> and keeps attempting to send it, even past the retry limit.
That's because it can't use any retry hints.
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