Hello,
I've seen some messages on this topic in the mail archives, but seems
like at that time no solution was found. I'm running Exim 3.35. Here's the problem. Today I started seeing these entries in the log:
failed to open database lock file /var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp.lockfile: Permission denied (euid=8 egid=8)
Here's the directory permissions.
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Apr 21 23:57 /var
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Jul 25 00:40 /var/spool/
drwxr-x--- 5 mail mail 4096 Mar 11 08:13 /var/spool/exim
drwxr-x--- 2 mail mail 4096 Jul 25 19:44 /var/spool/exim/db
And here are the file permissions withing "/var/spool/db"
-rw-r----- 1 mail root 4096 Jul 11 06:25 wait-remote_smtp
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Jul 11 06:25 wait-remote_smtp.lockfile
Naturally, Exim won't be able to open those files, but has anybody found
out why the ownership got changed from mail:mail on those two files?
Can I delete those files and will Exim reproduce them? And what are
they?
Cheers,
Sergei
I've seen some messages on this topic in the mail archives, but seems
like at that time no solution was found. I'm running Exim 3.35. Here's the problem. Today I started seeing these entries in the log:
failed to open database lock file /var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp.lockfile: Permission denied (euid=8 egid=8)
Here's the directory permissions.
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Apr 21 23:57 /var
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Jul 25 00:40 /var/spool/
drwxr-x--- 5 mail mail 4096 Mar 11 08:13 /var/spool/exim
drwxr-x--- 2 mail mail 4096 Jul 25 19:44 /var/spool/exim/db
And here are the file permissions withing "/var/spool/db"
-rw-r----- 1 mail root 4096 Jul 11 06:25 wait-remote_smtp
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Jul 11 06:25 wait-remote_smtp.lockfile
Naturally, Exim won't be able to open those files, but has anybody found
out why the ownership got changed from mail:mail on those two files?
Can I delete those files and will Exim reproduce them? And what are
they?
Cheers,
Sergei