No, it should not. YOU need to do this if you think so.
How do you start Exim? As root? Well, maybe root's $TMPDIR is /root/tmp?
I prefer to start daemons with the environment where only $PATH is set.
That way one can avoid various surprises.
In your startup script do something similar to the below:
# Fire up Exim and make sure $TMPDIR is /tmp
env TMPDIR=/tmp /local/bin/exim -bd -q30m
J. Nick Koston wrote:
> exim really needs to make set this to a sane value on startup. On
> mandrake 9.0 it is set to /root/tmp when so exim can never open its
> wait/retry db files since dbm can never generate a tmp file.
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Kirill Miazine
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