I've only noticed this error on my mail server during unusualy high loads.
The last time I saw it was when the mail server was cut off from the network
for about 4 hours, and when it
was re-connected, and the backwash of e-mail came flooding in, I noticed
that error happen quite a few times.
(normal for my server is about 80 connections a minute, heavy load was 200+)
Could exim be trying to access the lockfile as different UID's during heavy
load?
Nex time I know this happens, Ill run strace with it to see how its handling
it.
Brent Jones
----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip Hazel" <ph10@???>
To: "Peter Santiago" <petersantiago@???>
Cc: "Exim-Users@Exim. Org" <exim-users@???>
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 9:02 AM
Subject: Re: [Exim] What does this mean?
> On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Peter Santiago wrote:
>
> > 2002-03-01 23:31:55 16goql-0007ws-00 failed to open database lock file
> > /var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp.lockfile: Permission denied (euid=8
> > egid=12)
> >
> > When does this error occur?
>
> I wish I knew. It keeps getting reported from time to time, but nobody
> has ever come up with a foolproof way of reproducing it. Consequently,
> I've never been able to track down what is going on.
>
> Check the permissions on /var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp.lockfile
> and all its superior directories.
>
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