On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Pedro Bados wrote:
> Currently my exim doesnt work. In mainlog I can read this if I send an email to
> root just typing "#>mail root" but it is the same if I write for any user or
> any mail program.
>
>
> 2002-06-23 19:42:20 17MBNU-00048j-00 Message abandoned: Spool write error (No
> such file or directory) while receiving message from root
> 2002-06-23 19:42:20 17MBNU-00048k-00 Message abandoned: Spool write error (No
> such file or directory) while receiving message from mail
> 2002-06-23 19:42:20 17MBNU-00048j-00 Child mail process returned status 1
>
> Ive checked all permissions and everything looks ok. I have enough space, the
> partition is mounted rw, and other common things look right.
1. Check that the exim binary is setuid root.
2. Check which directory exim is trying to use:
exim -bP spool_directory
3. Check permissions of /var, /var/spool, and /var/spool/exim (or
whatever directory it is trying to use).
4. Try running Exim with debugging turned on:
exim -d root </dev/null
(use -d9 if you are using Exim 3).
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