> > 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)
> > ===
> Is this error repeatable? Does it show many times for the same message?
> For different messages? What are the permissions on
I seems to occur once per each message which is delivered to remote --
when only local deliveries happen, no errors appear.
For messages with remote targets this is repeateble.
> /var
> /var/spool
> /var/spool/exim
> /var/spool/exim/db
> /var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp.lockfile
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Dec 14 17:35 var
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Dec 16 11:46 spool
drwxr-x--- 5 mail mail 4096 Nov 3 23:02 exim
drwxr-x--- 2 mail mail 4096 Nov 24 21:16 db
=== !
-rw-r----- 1 root root 4096 Nov 8 06:25 wait-remote_smtp
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Nov 8 06:25 wait-remote_smtp.lockfil
=== !
Bullshit!!! Someone made these files root-owned. Who, I wonder.
When I killed them, new ones appeared:
===
-rw-r----- 1 mail mail 4096 Dec 21 13:10 wait-remote_smtp
-rw-r----- 1 mail mail 0 Dec 21 13:10 wait-remote_smtp.lockfil
===
And errors are gone!
But where have they appeared from?...
Maybe it helps: at about November 8 the distribution (most likely) was
Debian popato, so exim version was about 3.12.
It seems that there was some bug with uid/gid changing...
Perhaps this is the same thing people get with "-qff".
> ? From what you said, I presume that the message does get successfully
> delivered.
Yep.
Ingvarr.
