RE: [Exim] startup trouble

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Autor: Jan-Peter Koopmann
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A: linux, exim-users
Assumpte: RE: [Exim] startup trouble
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


Regards,
JP