Hi,
> I have successfully installed exim but now I am trying to start it up.
Well that means you have not successfully installed it but rather
successfully compiled it... :-) Sorry could not resist.
> It keeps coplaining about the logfile that it cannot open yet
> I have given it the correct permissions. > 30462 Cannot open main log file "/var/log/exim_mainlog": Permission
> denied:uid=502 egid=100
> 30462 2003-03-13 13:21:32 Cannot open main log file
> "/var/log/exim_mainlog":
> Permission denied: euid=502 egid=100
Ok. So it cannot access/create /var/log/exim_mainlog.
> if I do "su "mailman" -c 'touch /var/log/exim/hallo'"
> The file hallo is created so my permissions sre correct
You are testing /var/log/exim/... The difference is that one file is
created in /var/log the other in /var/log/exim. Check your permissions
and more likely the log_file_path option. You probably want something
like
log_file_path = /var/log/exim/%slog
Which will create the files mainlog, rejectlog and paniclog in /var/log
