Re: [Exim] error when trying to start exim

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Author: Dave C.
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To: Steve Romero
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] error when trying to start exim
On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Steve Romero wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've a new installation of exim, and am getting the following error when
> trying to start it up:
>
> 2002-04-01 20:27:03 Exim configuration file /etc/exim.conf has the wrong
> owner, group, or mode


The error message refers to

/etc/exim.conf

but your check below is for

/etc/exim/exim.conf

Is this perhaps the problem?

>
> I've checked the permissions/ownership of exim.conf:
>
> -rw-r--r--   1 exim     mail       16744 Mar 13 14:17 /etc/exim/exim.conf

>
> and the exim binary:
>
> -rwsr-xr-x   1 root     other    2103512 Mar 13 14:17 /usr/local/exim/bin/exim

>
> This configuration is working fine on another mail server I have running
> the same version of exim (3.35 on Solaris 8).
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Regards,
> Steve Romero
>
>
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