On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 06:02:07PM +0300, Jarno Elonen wrote: > Hi, > > I get daily error from exim (and some other packages, but mainly exim): > > /bin/sh: root: command not found > /etc/cron.daily/exim: > failed to open database lock file /var/spool/exim/db/retry.lockfile: > Permission denied (euid=1000 egid=50) > failed to open database lock file > /var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp.lockfile: Permission denied (euid=1000 > egid=50) > run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/exim exited with return code 1 > > Any ideas on what might cause this? It looks a bit as if it couldn't run as > root and was therefore failing to open some file. Are there any handy ways to > debug cron jobs?
Make sure that /var/spool/exim/db is owned by mail:mail (as well as the
files in it)
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