never mind. Brain fart on my end, kind of. A directory further up the
stream from the spool and exim directories was owned by root:wheel and
didn't have an 'x' permission...
sorry
Chad
On Wednesday, May 8, 2002, at 12:07 , Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I am building a replacement server and I am trying to get everything
> installed and working before I swap it in.
>
> I made exim 3.36 with SPOOL_DIRECTORY=/var/spool/exim
>
> /var/spool is a sym link to /local/var/spool
>
> /var/spool/exim has the following ownership and permissions:
>
> frog1# cd /var/spool/exim
> frog1# pwd
> /local/var/spool/exim
> frog1# ls -al
> total 4
> drwxr-x--- 2 exim daemon 512 May 7 23:51 .
> drwx------ 12 root wheel 512 May 7 23:49 ..
> frog1#
>
> I have the EXIM_UID and EXIM_GID set in the binary through
> Local/Makefile settings to be 78 and 1 which is exim and daemon
>
> So the directory is set correctly for ownership.
>
> I run exim with -d4 and when a mail comes in I get
>
> ldaplocal director succeeded for chad
> LOG: 0 MAIN PANIC DIE
> Failed to create spool file /var/spool/exim/input//175IbD-000Nql-00-D:
> Permission denied
> SMTP>> 421 Unexpected failure, please try later
> SMTP<< QUIT
>
>
> and no directory is created . If I hand make "input" with correct owner
> and group and permissions then I still get this error.
>
> If I do a ps -aux I can verify that exim is running under user "exim"
>
> exim 91698 0.0 0.1 2676 1900 p2 S+ 12:02AM 0:00.01
> /usr/local/bin/exim -bd -q5m -d4
>
> -----
>
> It appears to me that all is kosher and it should be able to create
> directories and files... My other box running 3.22 is set up the same
> way and works fine...
>
> This is on FreeBSD 4.5R-p4 in case it matters.
>
> Any comments or help is appreciated. Unfortunately, I kind of waited
> until the last minute and I am flying out to where the servers are
> located on Wednesday and actually have the swap planned for Thursday
> night.
>
> Anyway, thanks
> best regards
> Chad
>
>
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