On 2008-07-02 at 14:42 +1000, Adam Nielsen wrote: > > You can "rm -rf" the db directory and Exim should recreate it with > > correct permissions, provided that it can write to /var/spool/exim/. > > Just don't remove the parent of the db directory! The mails in the > > spool are elsewhere under /var/spool/exim/. > > Hmm, well I deleted it and Exim recreated it, but it still gives me the > same error message. The db/ folder only contains retry.lockfile and > wait-remote_smtp.lockfile. Should there be other non-lockfiles in there?
Yes. Various db files, whose maintenance is described in section 50 of spec.txt and some wait-* files for each transport in use. Sounds as though your Exim install is broken, permissions-wise. Did you remove the setuid-root permission from the binary or something? If you can't find the problem your end, you'll need to post an "ls -ld" of the db folder, the output of: $ exim -bP exim_user exim_group the Local/Makefile (you can skip the comments for the list, so: $ grep '^[^#]' Local/Makefile and preferably as much of your configuration as you're comfortable posting. -Phil -- ## 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/
