Bug 95005

Summary:	exim: Permission denied: creating lock file hitching post
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	DEMAINE Benoît-Pierre, aka DoubleHP <dhp_gentoo>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2005.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Other
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description DEMAINE Benoît-Pierre, aka DoubleHP 2005-06-04 04:53:40 UTC

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-345003-highlight-.html
says:

Jun  4 06:18:21 mercure exim[14708]: 2005-06-04 06:18:21 1DeQGf-0008K2-KN == dhp@localhost R=localuser T=local_delivery defer (13): Permission denied: creating lock file hitching post /var/mail/dhp.lock.localhost.42a1399d.00003979 (euid=1000 egid=100)

$ ls -lh /var/mail/ -a
total 0
drwxrwxr-x  2 root mail 18 May  5 09:24 .
drwxr-xr-x  7 root root 74 Jun  4 05:27 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  0 May  5 09:24 .keep

my exim conf is shown in URL given above.

When I switch /var/mail to rights 0777, then it works fine, and become afte delivery:

# ls -la mail/
total 4
drwxrwxrwx  2 root mail   28 Jun  4 12:44 .
drwxr-xr-x  7 root root   74 Jun  4 05:27 ..
-rw-------  1 dhp  users 729 Jun  4 12:43 dhp
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    0 May  5 09:24 .keep

after that, if I revert the directory to 0775 like it was before, it stops working again.

I dont know whether it is a problem due to stage3 2005.0, or to the install script of exim, or to the conf file.

I also thing that using 0777 is quiet a weak solution ... 

if any body got a better fix ...

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-06-04 05:03:02 UTC

Exim is broken ;-) Current mailbase has a ewarn about /var/spool/mail permissions.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 88177 ***