On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 06:56:47PM +0100, Dave Howe wrote:
Hi,

>   Recently upgraded exim using apt-get, and now suddenly I am getting an
> error where there wasn't one before.

Exim has had some security changes lately. Previous versions probably do
dsearch lookups from uid 0 (just guessing).

>   I am using dsearch in the usual vhost thing to distribute mail for
> different domains into different mailboxes, using a subdir
> /etc/exim4/domain-db and one file per domain.
> 
>   As of the update, I am now getting:
> 
> 18:39:56  9117   failed to open /etc/exim4/domain-db for directory search:
> Permission denied (euid=110 egid=117)

> checked that apparmour hasn't reared its ugly head again (it hasn't) and the
> permissions look ok (rw_r__r__ for root:Debian-exim where Debian-exim has

Directory /etc/exim4/domain-db has permissions rw_r__r__?
Try chmod a+x /etc/exim4/domain-db, search operation need +x permission.

> the aforementioned uid and gid numbers). I can su - to Debian-exim and see
> those files/dir just fine.

Weird, could you run 'id' command after su - Debian-exim?

Regards,
Kupson

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