gdub wrote:
Good afternoon-
I have an exim configuration I use on a
number of Gentoo boxes and have begun to
experiment with FC4 for future deployments.
Exim is 4.62 in both environments.
The trouble is with a particular
.include statement. It works find on the
Gentoo machines but not on the FC4.
Here is the output of exim -bV:
[root@e exim]# exim -bV
Exim version 4.62 #1 built 02-May-2006 07:39:12
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2006
Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.3.27: (March 13, 2006)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 PAM Perl TCPwrappers OpenSSL
Content_Scanning Old_Demime
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dnsdb
dsearch ldap ldapdn ldapm mysql nis nis0 nisplus passwd pgsql sqlite
Authenticators: cram_md5 cyrus_sasl plaintext spa
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore/mbx autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Size of off_t: 4
2006-10-05 16:30:10 Exim configuration error in line 491 of
/etc/exim/exim.conf:
failed to open included configuration file
/var/local/mailconfig/local/localdelivery
The error occurs when I run exim with
-bV or -bh. But, when I start the exim daemon,
there is no error.
The even weirder thing is that if I move the
.include line from the transport section up
to the main section, it includes just fine
(with a syntax error because it's a transport
def)
The file does includes from the same directory,
with the same permissions elsewhere in the file
with no problems (everything is world readable
since I've been trying to track this down). It's
not a typo or missing file, because, I can paste
the error value into an 'ls -l' and get the file
back--and exim runs in daemon mode without
an error.
I've racked my now feeble brain on this for
a while now and my Google searches have been
fruitless. I'm writing to the Fedora list
because, as I mentioned, I use this same config
on a number of Gentoo systems without a problem.
Any idea what's going on or what I should be
looking for?
TIA,
-dub
You might want to try asking this on the Exim mailing list, exim-users, which
you would need to subscribe to first at www.exim.org. There are people on that
list who know Exim pretty well (i.e. they maintain it).
I don't personally use .include so I can't help you. The only real difference
between running in foreground and daemon mode is the user that Exim is running
as. When in daemon mode Exim normally runs as exim.mail. Are you comlpetely sure
that the permissions on that file are identical, at the group and world level,
and that SELinux isn't getting in the way?
--
Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group,
University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
E-mail : nmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Phone : +44 (0)116 2523548, Fax : +44 (0)116 2523555
