[SA-exim] freeBSD, Exim, SA-Exim Ports Install

[Marc MERLIN]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 07:54:50PM +0200, RootChaos wrote:
> Hi Marc
> 
> Well, I throught that to be the problem. Fixed up some permissions, but it
> still comes up with the same error....
> 
> This is what my directory / file permissions looks like :-
> 
> 
>  [root at freebsd etc]# ls -al /usr/local/etc
>  drwxr--r--   2 root  wheel     512 Apr  8 19:44 exim/
 
Err, you may need to pick up a book or man page on unix permissions before
becoming RootChaos :)

if you don't set the 'x' bit on a directory, it is not traversable, so
sa-exim will never be able to reach its config file

>  [root at freebsd etc]# ls -al /usr/local/etc/exim/
>  -rw-rw-r--   1 root  wheel  16661 Apr  8 19:44 sa-exim.conf
> 
> 
> 
> RC
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc MERLIN [mailto:marc at merlins.org] 
> Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 4:58 PM
> To: RootChaos
> Cc: sa-exim at lists.merlins.org
> Subject: Re: [SA-exim] freeBSD, Exim, SA-Exim Ports Install
> 
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 09:17:42AM +0200, RootChaos wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I installed freeBSD 5.3, Exim, SA-Exim, p5-Mail-Spamassassin from the 
> > ports collection on my newlt installed freeBSD server. For some or 
> > other reason, this keeps popping up on my exim logs :-
> > 
> > 2005-04-10 06:34:19 1DKU9L-0000Rr-E8 SA: PANIC: Unexpected error on 
> > conf file open for /usr/local/etc/exim/sa-exim.conf (but message was 
> > accepted), file ../Local/sa-exim.c, line 645: Permission denied
> 
> well, it's the message clear?
> sa-exim (running as exim/mail/whatever exim is configured on your machine)
> doesn't have the rights to traverse /usr/local/etc/exim/ and open
> sa-exim.conf
> 
> Marc
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