On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Lawrence Lamprecht wrote:
>
> I am a complete newbie and have been trying to set up exim as MTA.
Good luck!
> I have managed to download the zipped file.
> I have gunzipped the file into the recomended locate(according to the EXIM
> book, O'Reily)/usr/exim/exim-4.34/
> I then edited the said files and then ran the make command.
> After that I ran the make install. All this went successfully.
> Most of the test that I run seem to not give me any error. I cannot seem to
> write to the error logs. I get the following error and do not know where to
> turn.
You are close!
>
> e2snail:/usr/exim/exim-4.34/build-Linux-i386 # mail lslamp@???
> Subject: test
>
> This is a test, I hope it works
>
> Cheers
> Lawrence
> EOT
> e2snail:/usr/exim/exim-4.34/build-Linux-i386 # 2004-06-23 09:03:43
> 1Bd1nL-00017e-0R Cannot open main log file "/var/spool/exim/log/mainlog":
> Permission denied: euid=142 egid=142
Check the permissions along the path and be sure that your exim user
has the right to write.
Marilyn Davis
> 2004-06-23 09:03:43 1Bd1nL-00017e-0R Failed to create directory
> "/var/spool/exim/input": Permission denied
>
> 2004-06-23 09:03:43 1Bd1nL-00017e-0R Cannot open main log file
> "/var/spool/exim/log/mainlog": Permission denied: euid=142 egid=142
> exim: could not open panic log - aborting: see message(s) above
>
> e2snail:/usr/exim/exim-4.34/build-Linux-i386 #
>
> Any help and advice will be more than welcome.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Cheers Lawrence
> lslamp@???
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