Re: [Exim] strange errors with permissions

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Author: Philip Hazel
Date:  
To: Ingvarr Zhmakin
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] strange errors with permissions
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Ingvarr Zhmakin wrote:

> Good day.
>
> Everything is working fine, no problems are observed.
> But. The log contains lines like this:
> ===
> <date> <msgid> failed to open database lock file /var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp.lockfile: Permission denied (euid=8 egid=8)
> ===
>
> Debian Linux, Exim-3.33 (from exim-tls-3.33 sid package).
>
> What's going on?


Is this error repeatable? Does it show many times for the same message?
For different messages? What are the permissions on

/var
/var/spool
/var/spool/exim
/var/spool/exim/db
/var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp.lockfile

? From what you said, I presume that the message does get successfully
delivered.

I have once or twice seen something similar when testing Exim, but I can
never make it repeat.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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