Hi,

I repeat my post since it looks nobody could help me.

I got exim now for more than two years running on my server without any problem. But last week when I updated my packages (I'm using Debian unstable) something could happen.
I just realised that I cannot send mail via pine and it keeps giving an error message without any comment just a bunch of numbers and letters.
I checked around the exim and mail log files and I found this:

"2-22 06:28:29 1D3SXd-0003i1-00 Cannot open main log file "/var/log/exim/mainlog": Permission denied: euid=8 egid=8
Feb 22 06:28:29 iguana exim[14261]: exim: could not open panic log - aborting: original error above"

So I checked the permissions of the /var/log/exim/mainlog file and I found it to be set "root" as owner. I changed the owner to be "mail" and left anything else unchanged and this way I could send mails again.

I thought I solved the problem the only thing I didn't understand what did change the owner of the file. BUT the next they it all started again... Cannot send mail... The owner of mainlog was the root again.

When I set the ownerhip of the mainlog file to "mail" I can send mails for couple hours but then the ownership is again "root". Is there something about cron?

Any suggestion? Please!

Thanks

Well I think I found a solution for the problem even if it's not too elegant.

Since nobody could give me any hint I decided to move to exim4 from exim3. That's all. Now the MTA has been working properly for almost two days.


Zahoo