On 5/30/2008 12:55 PM, John Jetmore wrote: > On Fri, 30 May 2008, Gordon wrote: > >> I have an inside and outside mta. The outside server succeeds the >> inside server fails when executing this crontab command... > >> 5 5 * * * /usr/sbin/eximstats -nr -nt /var/log/exim/main.log.1 > >> panic.log entry >> 2008-05-29 05:05:04 1K1e4G-0007oa-7J Failed to create spool file >> /var/spool/exim/input/G/1K1e4G-0007oa-7J-D: Permission denied > > make sure your exim binary is SUID. I have this running in root crontab, would SUID apply?
I tried 03 14 * * * root /usr/sbin/eximstats -nr -nt /var/log/exim/main.log.1 and got an additional log lin in /var/log/cron May 30 14:03:01 mta-eye crond[7823]: (root) CMD (root /usr/sbin/eximstats -nr -nt /var/log/exim/main.log.1) May 30 14:03:01 mta-eye crond[7822]: (root) MAIL (mailed 35 bytes of output but got status 0x0001 ) I also tried creating a crontab for user exim, no change. -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
