[ILUG] Exim problem

[John P . Looney]

On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 03:20:55PM +0000, Alan Smith mentioned:
> I've installed Exim on a Mandrake 7.2 box. All seems to have gone
> well, I followed all the instructions and got no errors during the
> make and make install. If I run ./exim -bV it says my configure file
> is fine.
> 
> However, when I actually try and start Exim, it just sits there
> looking at me. If I Ctrl-C, I get a message :
> 
> exim: SIGINT received - message abandoned
> 2000-12-01 15:18:37 Cannot open main log file
> "/var/exim/logs/exim_mainlog": Permission denied: euid=504 egid=0
> 
> I'm presuming I made a cock-up by just looking at the GID it's trying
> to use. Question is how do I fix it??  And will it mean starting from
> scratch...?

 No. It looks like you'll have to give write access to uid 504 to
/var/exim/logs

Kate

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