Author: Phil Pennock Date: To: 91change CC: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] never_users list
On 2008-08-19 at 23:22 -0700, 91change wrote: > A new problem poped up .
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> I added
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> exim_user = xyz
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> in run time connfiguration file .
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> where xyz is a default user in my system .
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> this creates a folder called /var/spool/exim with 766 . So when it tries to
> write into the directory ,it is failing .
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> IF xyz is user creating the directory /var/spool/exim ....Y it fails ?
>
> IS that directory is created by root ?
Yes. If the directory does not exist, it is created and immediately
chown'd to exim_uid:exim_gid
So, if exim_user is 'xyz' and exim_group is 'abc', then as root run:
chown -R xyz:abc /var/spool/exim
