On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 10:03:02AM -0700, Cam Ellison wrote:
> I'm running Exim 4.22 and sa-exim 3.1, having screwed up with sa-exim
> 3.0 (changed owners and permissions -- yes, I know, I shouldn't mess
> with what my betters have created, and I should keep records), purged
> it, and installed 3.1. Exim now complains about not having
> permissions to write to the sa-exim logs, thus:
>
> 2003-10-25 08:59:03 1ADQoE-0002vX-Uc SA: PANIC: Error in error handler while trying to save mail to /var/spool/sa-exim/SAerrorsave/1067097543_200310251423.h9PENHKH019036@???, file sa-exim.c, line 1345: Permission denied
>
> When I purged sa-exim 3.0, the logs did not disappear (I neglected to
> check this), so when I reinstalled, I assume the installation did not
> overwrite them. I have since wiped them out, in hopes that sa-exim
> would set them up again. This has not worked.
>
> What is my best approach -- wipe it and start again, or can I just
> create the directories manually? If so, what should the permissions be?
Iirc the directory simply needs to be writable for the exim-user, i.e
chown -R exim:exim /var/spool/sa-exim/
should do the trick
cu andreas
