Author: Sergei Gerasenko Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] /var/spool/exim/db
> You could also check the permissions of /var/tmp and /tmp to make sure you > can write to the dir.
Yes, just check them. Both of them have the sticky bit set.
> A while back I had to do an strace on the delivery exim process and found
> that the DB routine tried to access the dir and couldn't, so it gave that
> error and sent me on a wild goose chase for 2 months.
Hey, it's pretty cool that you could diagnose the problem with strace.