RE: [Exim] startup trouble

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Author: John (TJ) Penton
Date:  
To: Jan-Peter Koopmann
CC: linux, exim-users
Subject: RE: [Exim] startup trouble
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Jan-Peter Koopmann wrote:

> > 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

                                                                 ^^^^^^^^
That should be /var/log/exim/


Alternatively, if you want your exim logs to be in /var/log, then you need
to give the exim user write permissions for that directory. eg. chmod o+w
/var/log (although this is not necessarily the best method).

John.