On 2022-05-21 Axel Rau via Exim-users <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all,
> Recently my mailman 3 servers began spamming with tons of such log messages: > cannot accept message: failed to stat log directory /var/spool/exim/log: > Permission denied > root@lists5:/var/spool/exim # ls -ld . > drwxrwx--- 5 mailnull mail 5 May 18 05:45 . > root@lists5:/var/spool/exim # ls -l > total 10 > drwxr-x--- 2 mailnull mail 8 Jan 18 20:17 db > drwxr-x--- 2 mailnull mail 2 May 18 03:01 input > drwxr-x--- 2 mailnull mail 2 May 18 03:01 msglog > root@lists5:/var/spool/exim # id 26 > uid=26(mailnull) gid=26(mailnull) groups=26(mailnull) > user mailman is in the mail group. > Should it be in the mailnull group? > What is the correct setup? Is mailnull:mail your exim user/group? exim -bP | grep ^exim_ /var/spool/exim/log does not exist. What are the permissions on /var/spool/exim itself? cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure' -- ## 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/
