Hi, I'm running debian stable on my machines, and I've noticed that when one of my scripts sends email, I get a spurious and unexplained "Permission denied" error:
2020-04-27 20:36:15 1jT9Y7-0003B4-Mf <= pat...@xxxx.armlinux.org.uk U=patchd P=local S=1535 2020-04-27 20:36:15 1jT9Y7-0003B4-Mf H=pandora.armlinux.org.uk [xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:214:fdff:fe10:1be6] Permission denied 2020-04-27 20:36:17 1jT9Y7-0003B4-Mf => u...@example.com R=smart_route T=remote_smtp H=pandora.armlinux.org.uk [xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:214:fdff:fe10:1be6] X=TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 CV=yes A=fixed_cram C="250 OK id=1jT9Y8-0004ff-Qf" My guess is that there is some file that exim can't access while attempting to send to pandora, but I think working out what is going to be very hard (I guess debug isn't allowed from non-root users?) Sure enough, trying it results in: exim: debugging permission denied However, there's a general principle of error reporting here: shouldn't error messages contain some hint as to what is being done when the error was encountered? Given that -d+all can't be used in this case, and the binary can't be straced (because it's set-uid), IMHO the only way to track this down is for that general principle to be adhered to by the exim code base. As this doesn't seem to be causing a problem, it's not something I care about, but I thought I would bring it to people's attention. Thanks. -- Russell King -- ## List details at https://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/