I noted that retry database is owned by root when it is first created by
a process initially started as root.
root@ns:/var/spool/exim/db# ls -al
total 4
drwxr-x--- 2 exim exim 512 Nov 26 12:05 .
drwxr-x--- 5 exim exim 512 Nov 25 14:13 ..
root@ns:/var/spool/exim/db# echo | mail root
root@ns:/var/spool/exim/db# ls -al
total 4
drwxr-x--- 2 exim exim 512 Nov 26 12:07 .
drwxr-x--- 5 exim exim 512 Nov 25 14:13 ..
-rw-r----- 1 root exim 0 Nov 26 12:07 retry
-rw-r----- 1 root exim 0 Nov 26 12:07 retry.lockfile
Exim version 4.10.11 #2 built 25-Nov-2002 22:58:38
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2002
Probably Berkeley DB version 1.8x (native mode)
Operating system is OpenBSD 3.1.
Greetings,
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Kirill Miazine, Stud.Jur. mailto:sig@krot.org
Faculty of Law, University of Oslo http://km.krot.org/