* Peter [2004-05-13 09:20]:
> I'm having an intermittent SMTP problem. about 1/6 emails returns me a
> mail to the mail admin address with the following (I added the Subject
> and Body for clarity):
>
> Subject:
> Cron <mail@mail> if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim -a -f /etc/exim/exim.conf ];
> then /usr/sbin/exim -q ; fi
>
> Body:
> exim: permission denied
>
> the intermittency of it is one of the most frustrating things. I checked
> permissions for usr/sbin/exim and I can't see anything wrong with them,
> but hey, I'm a noob. I also crossposted this to the Debian-users list,
> because it seems like it might be a filesystem/permissions problem.
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
This is not a problem with some of your messages "returning", there's a
permisson problem with mail's crontab. User "mail" is trying to start a
queue-runner (exim -q) which he does not have a permission to do. What
do following commands output:
ls -l /usr/sbin/exim
exim -bP exim_user exim_group
exim -d -q
(Execute the last command as user "mail".)
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Kirill Miazine
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