Cant recive mail on fresh Fedora core 2 Install

[jaq]

HI all:
Thought I would just post this to give everyone a heads up.

just bought DA for a 2nd box, which is running Fedora core 2.
After the DA did the install the box is unable to recieve any mail destine for local mail boxes.

Here is what the panic log shoiws.

2004-09-22 14:56:00 1CADDc-0000tz-1b Failed to create spool file /var/spool/exim/input//1CADDc-0000tz-1b-D: Permission denied
2004-09-22 14:57:00 1CADEa-000295-2c Failed to create spool file /var/spool/exim/input//1CADEa-000295-2c-D: Permission denied
2004-09-22 14:58:00 1CADFY-0004z7-3m Failed to create spool file /var/spool/exim/input//1CADFY-0004z7-3m-D: Permission denied
2004-09-22 14:59:00 1CADGW-0006Pb-4w Failed to create spool file /var/spool/exim/input//1CADGW-0006Pb-4w-D: Permission denied
2004-09-22 15:00:00 1CADHU-0002GD-6V Failed to create spool file /var/spool/exim/input//1CADHU-0002GD-6V-D: Permission denied
2004-09-22 15:01:00 1CADIS-0004kx-Nt Failed to create spool file /var/spool/exim/input//1CADIS-0004kx-Nt-D: Permission denied
2004-09-22 15:02:01 1CADJR-0006Pz-6J Failed to create spool file /var/spool/exim/input//1CADJR-0006Pz-6J-D: Permission denied
2004-09-22 15:03:00 1CADKO-0001GP-7R Failed to create spool file /var/spool/exim/input//1CADKO-0001GP-7R-D: Permission denied
2004-09-22 15:04:00 1CADLM-0003Mr-8Z Failed to create spool file /var/spool/exim/input//1CADLM-0003Mr-8Z-D: Permission denied
2004-09-22 15:05:00 1CADMK-0006Eh-A3 Failed to create spool file /var/spool/exim/input//1CADMK-0006Eh-A3-D: Permission denied
2004-09-23 04:02:01 1CAPUH-00078I-KY Failed to create spool file /var/spool/exim/input//1CAPUH-00078I-KY-D: Permission denied
2004-09-23 04:18:25 1CAPUH-00078K-Kv Failed to create spool file /var/spool/exim/input//1CAPUH-00078K-Kv-D: Permission denied
2004-09-24 04:02:02 1CAlxq-0001fb-H1 Failed to create spool file /var/spool/exim/input//1CAlxq-0001fb-H1-D: Permission denied
2004-09-24 04:03:29 1CAlxq-0001fd-I1 Failed to create spool file /var/spool/exim/input//1CAlxq-0001fd-I1-D: Permission denied
2004


The issue is that the follow directries are owned by EXIM on a FC2 install

/var/spool/exim/input
/var/spool/exim/db
/var/spool/exim/msglog

But the exim daemon is running as the user 'mail'.

I fixed this just by doing a chown mail.mail for the 3 folders, and all is well.

Thanks.

 

[AVC Hosting]

It happened to me

This problem happened to me with CentOS 4.2 only I could not send email. I could receive email on the server (it showed the data total) but not read the email through webmail or send/receive through outlook express.

Lines from /var/log/exim/mainlog:

2006-06-19 16:07:33 1FsSqD-00028v-6y Failed to create spool file /var/spool/exim/input//1FsSqD-00028v-6y-D: Permission denied
2006-06-19 16:07:33 1FsSqD-00028x-8K Failed to create spool file /var/spool/exim/input//1FsSqD-00028x-8K-D: Permission denied
2006-06-19 16:13:04 1FsSvY-00029O-HF Failed to create spool file /var/spool/exim/input//1FsSvY-00029O-HF-D: Permission denied
2006-06-19 16:13:23 1FsSvr-00029S-DG Failed to create spool file /var/spool/exim/input//1FsSvr-00029S-DG-D: Permission denied
2006-06-19 16:20:35 1FsT2p-00029s-8D Failed to create spool file /var/spool/exim/input//1FsT2p-00029s-8D-D: Permission denied
2006-06-19 16:23:13 1FsT5N-0002AH-1x Failed to create spool file /var/spool/exim/input//1FsT5N-0002AH-1x-D: Permission denied

end log

Your fix did the trick. Wish I could buy you a beer. Thanks

 

[chatwizrd]

cd /var/spool/exim
chown -R mail:mail *