I am trying to start exim v4.69 and I am receiving the following error message:
/etc/passwd file:
/etc/group file:
My server OS is FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE
I tried to find a solution for this but without success
please be cool and help me here
thanks in advance
Code:
# exim start
^C
exim: SIGINT received - message abandoned
2008-11-14 11:43:04 Cannot open main log file "/var/log/exim/mainlog": Permission denied: [B][COLOR="blue"]euid=26 egid=6[/COLOR][/B]
2008-11-14 11:43:04 SIGINT received while reading local message
2008-11-14 11:43:04 Cannot open main log file "/var/log/exim/mainlog": Permission denied: [B][COLOR="Blue"]euid=26 egid=6[/COLOR][/B]
exim: could not open panic log - aborting: see message(s) above
/etc/passwd file:
Code:
root:*:0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/sh
toor:*:0:0:Bourne-again Superuser:/root:
daemon:*:1:1:Owner of many system processes:/root:/usr/sbin/nologin
operator:*:2:5:System &:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
bin:*:3:7:Binaries Commands and Source:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
tty:*:4:65533:Tty Sandbox:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
kmem:*:5:65533:KMem Sandbox:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
games:*:7:13:Games pseudo-user:/usr/games:/usr/sbin/nologin
news:*:8:8:News Subsystem:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
man:*:9:9:Mister Man Pages:/usr/share/man:/usr/sbin/nologin
sshd:*:22:22:Secure Shell Daemon:/var/empty:/usr/sbin/nologin
smmsp:*:25:25:Sendmail Submission User:/var/spool/clientmqueue:/usr/sbin/nologin
[B][COLOR="Blue"]mailnull:*:26:26:Sendmail Default User:/var/spool/mqueue:/usr/sbin/nologin[/COLOR][/B]
bind:*:53:53:Bind Sandbox:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
proxy:*:62:62:Packet Filter pseudo-user:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
_pflogd:*:64:64:pflogd privsep user:/var/empty:/usr/sbin/nologin
_dhcp:*:65:65:dhcp programs:/var/empty:/usr/sbin/nologin
uucp:*:66:66:UUCP pseudo-user:/var/spool/uucppublic:/usr/local/libexec/uucp/uucico
pop:*:68:6:Post Office Owner:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
www:*:80:80:World Wide Web Owner:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
nobody:*:65534:65534:Unprivileged user:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
mail:*:12:6:User &:/home/mail:/bin/sh
diradmin:*:1001:1001:User &:/usr/local/directadmin/diradmin:/bin/sh
ftp:*:1002:14:User &:/home/ftp:/bin/sh
apache:*:1003:1002:User &:/var/www/apache:/bin/sh
webapps:*:1004:1003:User &:/var/www/html/webapps:/bin/sh
majordomo:*:1005:1:User &:/etc/virtual/majordomo/majordomo:/bin/sh
mysql:*:1006:1004:User &:/home/mysql:/bin/sh
dovecot:*:1007:1005:User &:/home/dovecot:/bin/sh
/etc/group file:
Code:
# $FreeBSD: src/etc/group,v 1.35 2007/06/11 18:36:39 ceri Exp $
#
wheel:*:0:root
daemon:*:1:
kmem:*:2:
sys:*:3:
tty:*:4:
operator:*:5:root
[B][COLOR="blue"]mail:*:6:[/COLOR][/B]
bin:*:7:
news:*:8:
man:*:9:
games:*:13:
ftp:*:14:
staff:*:20:
sshd:*:22:
smmsp:*:25:
mailnull:*:26:
guest:*:31:
bind:*:53:
proxy:*:62:
authpf:*:63:
_pflogd:*:64:
_dhcp:*:65:
uucp:*:66:
dialer:*:68:
network:*:69:
audit:*:77:
www:*:80:
nogroup:*:65533:
nobody:*:65534:
diradmin:*:1001:
apache:*:1002:
webapps:*:1003:
mysql:*:1004:
dovecot:*:1005:
My server OS is FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE
I tried to find a solution for this but without success
please be cool and help me here

thanks in advance
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