Hello,
I've seen some messages on this topic in the mail archives, but seems
like at that time no solution was found. I'm running Exim 3.35. Here's the problem. Today I started seeing these entries in the log:
failed to open database lock file /var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp.lockfile: Permission denied (euid=8 egid=8)
Here's the directory permissions.
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Apr 21 23:57 /var
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Jul 25 00:40 /var/spool/
drwxr-x--- 5 mail mail 4096 Mar 11 08:13 /var/spool/exim
drwxr-x--- 2 mail mail 4096 Jul 25 19:44 /var/spool/exim/db
And here are the file permissions withing "/var/spool/db"
-rw-r----- 1 mail root 4096 Jul 11 06:25 wait-remote_smtp
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Jul 11 06:25 wait-remote_smtp.lockfile
Naturally, Exim won't be able to open those files, but has anybody found
out why the ownership got changed from mail:mail on those two files?
Can I delete those files and will Exim reproduce them? And what are
they?
Cheers,
Sergei
