Re: [Exim] problem with unopenable exim_rejectlog

At 15:24 +0100 2003/09/26, Philip Hazel wrote:
>On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Giuliano Gavazzi wrote:
>
>> I have come across a problem, thanks to the hardcoded path to chown
>> in exicyclog.. (why hardcoding the path when the shell could find it
>> on its own?).
>
>You might run exicyclog from cron. The PATH may not be set. In some OS,
>chown is kept in strange places.

I was surprised because "Configure" (I suppose) should find out the
correct path, and indeed somewhere, I think in a Makefile, the paths
were correct.

>Exim should create its log files if they do not exist. I wonder why it
>did not? Do you have them in a directory that is not writeable by the
>Exim user?

yes, that is the reason, I think I will move them from /var/log/ to
/var/log/exim/.

Giuliano