Bug#549198: exim4-daemon-light: log file: permission denied

[Tony Houghton]

Package: exim4-daemon-light
Version: 4.69-11+b1
Severity: minor


Exim4 created a paniclog file containing this message:

2009-09-29 19:57:19 1Msht1-0000zK-Be Cannot open main log file "/var/log/exim4/mainlog": Permission denied: euid=101 egid=105

The log file does now have the correct permissions and exim4 seems to be
behaving correctly. I wonder if logrotate temporarily changes the
onwnership or permissions and exim4 happened to try to open the log at
that moment.

-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.69 #1 built 18-Aug-2009 19:15:27
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2006
Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 4.6.21: (June 10, 2009)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS move_frozen_messages
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dnsdb dsearch nis nis0 passwd
Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Size of off_t: 8
Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
# /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
#
# Edit this file and /etc/mailname by hand and execute update-exim4.conf
# yourself or use 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'
#
# Please note that this is _not_ a dpkg-conffile and that automatic changes
# to this file might happen. The code handling this will honor your local
# changes, so this is usually fine, but will break local schemes that mess
# around with multiple versions of the file.
#
# update-exim4.conf uses this file to determine variable values to generate
# exim configuration macros for the configuration file.
#
# Most settings found in here do have corresponding questions in the
# Debconf configuration, but not all of them.
#
# This is a Debian specific file

dc_eximconfig_configtype='smarthost'
dc_other_hostnames='empty'
dc_local_interfaces=''
dc_readhost='realh.co.uk'
dc_relay_domains=''
dc_minimaldns='false'
dc_relay_nets='192.168.1.0/24'
dc_smarthost='mail.o2.co.uk'
CFILEMODE='644'
dc_use_split_config='false'
dc_hide_mailname='true'
dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
dc_localdelivery='mail_spool'
mailname:tiber.lan

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages exim4-daemon-light depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.27     Debian configuration management sy
ii  exim4-base                    4.69-11+b1 support files for all Exim MTA (v4
ii  libc6                         2.9-26     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdb4.6                      4.6.21-14  Berkeley v4.6 Database Libraries [
ii  libgnutls26                   2.8.4-1    the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libpcre3                      7.8-2      Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi

exim4-daemon-light recommends no packages.

exim4-daemon-light suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
  exim4-daemon-light/drec: