What is with these errors every (15) minutes ??? 2001-10-30 08:53:02 15yaGE-0003cv-00 Cannot open main log file "/var/log/exim/mainlog": Permission denied: euid=8 egid=8
exim: could not open panic log - aborting: original error above I can write to these logfiles as user mail (8:8): Loki:~# ls -adl /var/log/exim/ drwxr-s--- 2 mail adm 4096 Oct 30 07:35 /var/log/exim/ Loki:~# ls -al /var/log/exim/mainlog -rw-r--r-- 1 mail mail 26 Oct 30 08:43 /var/log/exim/mainlog Loki:~# ls -al /var/log/exim/paniclog -rw-r--r-- 1 mail mail 26 Oct 30 08:45 /var/log/exim/paniclog Loki:~# su - mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ id uid=8(mail) gid=8(mail) groups=8(mail),4(adm) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /var/log/exim/mainlog >> /var/log/exim/paniclog [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /var/log/exim/paniclog >> /var/log/exim/mainlog [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -al /var/log/exim/mainlog -rw-r--r-- 1 mail mail 78 Oct 30 09:01 /var/log/exim/mainlog [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -al /var/log/exim/paniclog -rw-r--r-- 1 mail mail 52 Oct 30 09:01 /var/log/exim/paniclog [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd /var/log/exim/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log/exim$ ls -al total 60 drwxr-s--- 2 mail adm 4096 Oct 30 07:35 . drwxr-x--- 9 root adm 4096 Oct 30 07:39 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 mail mail 78 Oct 30 09:01 mainlog -rw-r--r-- 1 mail mail 2555 Oct 29 12:38 mainlog.0 -rw-r----- 1 mail mail 1491 Oct 29 07:23 mainlog.1.gz -rw-r----- 1 mail mail 704 Oct 28 07:23 mainlog.2.gz -rw-r----- 1 mail mail 1177 Oct 27 07:23 mainlog.3.gz -rw-r----- 1 mail mail 1401 Oct 26 07:23 mainlog.4.gz -rw-r----- 1 mail mail 1232 Oct 25 07:23 mainlog.5.gz -rw-r----- 1 mail mail 1206 Oct 24 07:23 mainlog.6.gz -rw-r----- 1 mail mail 1211 Oct 23 07:23 mainlog.7.gz -rw-r----- 1 mail mail 1192 Oct 22 07:23 mainlog.8.gz -rw-r----- 1 mail mail 1162 Oct 21 07:23 mainlog.9.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 mail mail 52 Oct 30 09:01 paniclog -rw-r----- 1 mail mail 148 Jun 14 00:15 paniclog.0 What do you think? -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 888.250.3987 Dare to fix things before they break . . . Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . .
