Re: [Exim] Newbie Satellite question.

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Gjermund G Thorsen
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Newbie Satellite question.
On 26 Feb 2002, Gjermund G Thorsen wrote:

> What on earth went wrong here?


> 2002-02-26 13:51:45 16fh57-0006fQ-00 failed to open database lock file

/var/spool/exim/db/retry.lockfile: Permission denied (euid=8 egid=8)

This is a mystery problem which a couple of people have had, but which
tends to go away. I have never been able to reliably reproduce it. I bet
if you look at that file you will find it is owned by uid=8 gid=8. If
you can find a way of reliably producing this fault, I'd like to know
about it!


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