Laurent Le Moine wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've installed the last version of Exim on a FC 8, I configure Exim with
> the exim.conf file.
> But when I try to do :
>
> /[admin@test-exim ~]$ exim -v -odf alice
> Loading lookup modules from /usr/lib/exim/4.69-7.fc10/lookups
> Loaded "mysql.so" (1 lookup types)
> Loaded "pgsql.so" (1 lookup types)
> Loaded 2 lookup modules
> Test
> .
> LOG: MAIN
> <= admin@??? U=admin P=local S=324
> delivering 1M3qaK-0000iG-0v
> LOG: MAIN PANIC
> Couldn't chown message log /var/spool/exim/msglog//1M3qaK-0000iG-0v:
> Operation not permitted
> /
> drwxr-xr-x 2 exim exim 4096 mai 12 12:02 /etc/exim
> drwxr-xr-x 6 exim exim 4096 mai 12 11:08 /var/spool/exim
> drwxr-xr-x 2 exim exim 4096 mai 12 11:17 /var/log/exim
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 982424 août 13 2008 /usr/sbin/exim
>
> I've have a very simple conf file based on the Configuration C1 by Jason
> Meers.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> PS: I'm french so sorry for my english.
>
>
>
Nothing amiss with your English.
Jason's 'C1' has:
====
my_local_delivery_transport:
driver = appendfile
file = /var/mail/$local_part
delivery_date_add
envelope_to_add
return_path_add
group = mail
mode = 0660
====
Note that the transport selects 'group = mail', but neither hard-codes a user,
nor looks-up any specific user, ergo will default to the user Exim's 'child'
process was spawned with.
For normal running, that may not be the same as for manual debug, and may or may
not be 'exim'.
Check your installation package, your initd invocation that starts the daemon,
and your configuration file to see what these actually are.
And that they agree.
The spool it is trying to manipulate, OTOH, is no mystery:
It is clearly owned by group 'exim' as well as user 'exim', and that is probably
NOT a multi-member 'group'
Likewise, Exim is probably a member of group 'mail' but group 'mail' is probably
NOT a member of group 'exim'. (less /etc/group, /etc/master.passwd to confirm).
Ergo - to get started you need something of this sort:
chown -R exim:mail /var/spool/exim
and
chmod -R 660 /var/spool/exim
... to get the dirtree into a 'cooperative' initial state.
Which may clear the blockage.
If not, post new log & error messages...
HTH,
Bill
