If the msec is cause of this problem, you can add lines about 'exim' to /usr/share/msec/perm.[0-5].
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From: <lmorrison@???>
To: "Dan Egli" <dan@???>
Cc: "Jon Morrison" <jonmorrison99@???>; <exim-users@???>
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 8:08 AM
Subject: Re: [Exim] *** spool read error: Permission denied ***
> Actually I have found the answer.
>
> In Mandrake 9.2 a security program called 'msec' was running every hour
> and kept changing the setuid bit on the exim binary.
>
> Thanks anyway.
> Lionel
>
> > Jon Morrison wrote:
> >> Does anyone know what might be causing messages that are being sent
> >> localy using the exim binary
> >> (SMTP Delivery works fine) are causing the following message *** spool
> >> read error: Permission
> >> denied *** when you look at the message queue.
> >
> > best guess off my head is the permissions do not allow reading by the
> > world and you're calling exim as a non-privledged user. Make your
> > permissions for your spool dir 775 (or 755) and those might go away.
> >
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > -- Dan
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