On 2 May 2003, Oliver Egginger wrote:
> failed to open DB file /var/spool/mail/db/wait-remote_smtp: Permission
> denied (euid=8 egid=12)
What DBM library are you using?
> transport_check_waiting entered
> sequence=1 local_max=500 global_max=-1
> locking /var/spool/mail/db/wait-remote_smtp.lockfile
> locked /var/spool/mail/db/wait-remote_smtp.lockfile
> LOG: MAIN
> failed to open DB file /var/spool/mail/db/wait-remote_smtp: Permission
> denied (euid=8 egid=12)
> SMTP>> QUIT
Strange, because it presumably created that file at some stage.
> Could it be, that Exim gets confused by the existens
> of the file
> /var/spool/mail/db/wait-remote_smtp.lockfile ???
I hope not.
> This file exits since the first delivery.
> And it don't go away.
That is correct. Its existence is not the lock. It is used as a file to
open and take a lock on.
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