Re: [Exim] problem changing UID

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Author: Michael Collin Nielsen
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] problem changing UID
On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Philip Hazel wrote:
> Try running
>
> /pack/exim-4.05/bin/exim -d -C /etc/eximmail/exim_outgoing.conf -q30m
>
> (as root) and taking a look at the debugging output (stderr). Maybe that
> will give a clue.


I've tried that, and it all looks dandy to me, except for the errormessage
about exim not beeing able to create spoolfile:

root@eryx:~> /pack/exim-4.05/bin/exim -d -C
/etc/eximmail/exim_outgoing.conf -q30m
Exim version 4.05 uid=0 gid=0 pid=28787 L=834cd8 D=fff7577f
Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 3.2.9: (January 24, 2001)
changed uid/gid: forcing real = effective
uid=0 gid=0
auxiliary group list: <none>
trusted user
admin user
originator: uid=0 gid=0 login=root name=Super-User
changed uid/gid: running the daemon
uid=64 gid=64
auxiliary group list: <none>
LOG: MAIN
exim 4.05 daemon started: pid=28787, -q30m, not listening for SMTP
set_process_info: 28787 daemon: -q30m, not listening
daemon running with uid=64 gid=64 euid=64 egid=64
SIGALRM received
1 queue-runner process running
Starting queue-runner: pid 28788
exec /pack/exim-4.05/bin/exim -C /etc/eximmail/exim_outgoing.conf -q
child 28788 ended: status=0x0
0 queue-runner processes now running
2002-07-17 11:56:48 Failed to create spool file
/var/spool/exim_outgoing/input//17UlY8-0007WK-00-D: Permission denied

The errormessage arrives as exim tries to create the vacation message, and
it is written to the terminal even when debug is not enabled. mainlog
says:
2002-07-17 11:56:48 17UlY1-0007Vt-00 => svend <svend@???>
R=virtual_users T=local_delivery
2002-07-17 11:56:49 17UlY1-0007Vt-00 == svend@??? R=user_vacation
T=vacation_reply defer (0): Failed to send message from vacation_reply
transport (1)

Could you think of anything else that I could do to try to find the cause
of this? Perhaps I should mention that I run exim on Solaris 8.

Regards

-Michael

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   Michael Collin Nielsen  mailto:michael@hum.auc.dk
   M.Sc.E.E.               http://www.hum.auc.dk/~michael
   Sysadm in Faculty of Humanities, Aalborg University