[Pkg-exim4-users] exim4 not starting by default in lenny

[Lukas Baxa]

Hi,

David Prévot wrote:
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> Le 16/03/2010 15:43, Lukas Baxa a écrit :
>> Hello,
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> I installed the exim4 package under debian lenny, but the daemon doesn't
>> start. In /var/log/mail.err, I can find following:
>>
>> Mar  15 21:30:07 ... exim[11948]: 2010-03-15 21:30:07 exim 4.69 daemon
>> started: pid=11948, -q30m, listening for SMTP on [127.0.0.1]:25
>> Mar  15 21:30:07 ... exim[11948]: 2010-03-15 21:30:07 Cannot open main
>> log file "/var/log/exim4/mainlog": Permission denied: euid=102 egid=107
>> Mar  15 21:30:07 ... exim[11948]: exim: could not open panic log -
>> aborting: see message(s) above
>>
>> So I checked the access to /var/log/exim4/mainlog and I found that
>> /var/log is not accessible for the Debian-exim user (in fact to anyone
>> who isn't root or isn't a member of the root group).
> 
> /var/log/exim4 on the other hand, should be writable :
> 
> $ ls -la /var/log
> [...]
> drwxr-xr-x 20 root          root             4096 mars 16 08:47 .
> drwxr-s---  2 Debian-exim   adm              4096 mars 16 07:03 exim4
> 
> (It wad created as it is by the package install on a debian Lenny).

my /var/log/exim4 is writable.

> 
> Cheers
> 
> David

Lukas

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