[Pkg-exim4-users] /var/spool/exim4/input/... Permission denied

[Ross Boylan]

On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 09:12:08AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On 2006-04-18 Ross Boylan <ross at biostat.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 09:16:02AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> >> On 2006-04-17 Ross Boylan <ross at biostat.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> >>> When I try to send an email I get back the error
> >>> 2006-04-16 02:54:59 1FV3y7-0002Nr-PM Failed to create spool file
> >>> /var/spool/exim4/input//1FV3y7-0002Nr-PM-D: Permission denied.
> [...]
> > Those checks appear below, but first, the most suspicious thing:
> [...]

Is the alarming looking output of reiserfsck not an indication of a
problem?

> > The output from df -i looks screwy, but I seem to be able to copy
> > other files onto the partition.  It's got so much on it because I'm
> > using it for backup.
> [...]
> > corn:~# df -i !$
> > df -i /var/spool/exim4/input
> > Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
> > /dev/evms/Var              0       0       0    -  /var
> 
> That's ok, exim should be able do deal with IFree=0 (if inodes
> total=0, too)
> 
> echo foo | exim -d postmaster at localhost
> 
> might be more helpful.
> 
> (use any working local or non-local address for postmaster at localhost)
> 
I'm not sure what you mean by "working," since things seem broken.

Thanks for helping me with this.

Ross