Philip Hazel wrote:
> 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!
on that subject. I'd mentioned the same problem. On a closer
inspection the file was _not_ owned by 'mail' (uid/gid 8). oops.
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derek
