[Sheflug] Weird exim problems

[Simon Brown <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

since apt-get upgradeing this morning weird things have started to happen with my mail system.

yes I am running unstable so I do expect to get burnt, but I wanted to see what gnome2 looks like.

from my mail log there seem to be 2 errors:

2002-07-04 21:17:36 17QC6i-0001R8-00 ** |IFS=' ' && p=/usr/bin/procmail && test -f $p && exec $p -Yf- || exit 75 #simon <simon [at] localhost> D=userforward T=address_pipe: "IFS='" command not found for address_pipe transport
2002-07-04 21:17:36 17QC6i-0001RW-00 <= <> R=17QC6i-0001R8-00 U=mail P=local S=3754
2002-07-04 21:17:36 17QC6i-0001R8-00 Error message sent to user [at] domain
2002-07-04 21:17:36 17QC6i-0001R8-00 Completed

which I don't really understand. address_pipe is mentioned in my exim.conf but I have no idea what it does

The second seems to be just a simple permissions problem which I hope I've sorted, but thought I should include anyway. The mentioned files all belonged to root, not mail 

2002-07-04 21:17:36 17QC6i-0001RW-00 failed to open database lock file /var/spool/exim/db/retry.lockfile: Permission denied (euid=8 egid=8)
2002-07-04 21:17:36 17QC6i-0001RW-00 failed to open database lock file /var/spool/exim/db/retry.lockfile: Permission denied (euid=8 egid=8)
2002-07-04 21:17:36 17QC6i-0001RW-00 failed to open database lock file /var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp.lockfile: Permission denied (euid=8 egid=8)
2002-07-04 21:17:36 17QC6i-0001RW-00 => user [at] domain R=smarthost T=remote_smtp H=SPAM.wh1.tu-dresden.de [141.30.230.2]
2002-07-04 21:17:36 17QC6i-0001RW-00 Completed
2002-07-04 21:23:01 Start queue run: pid=5592
2002-07-04 21:23:01 17QBrP-0001Op-00 Message is frozen
2002-07-04 21:23:01 17DQPv-0000S6-00 Message is frozen
2002-07-04 21:23:01 17IXtw-0000cV-00 Message is frozen
2002-07-04 21:23:01 17QC6Y-0001RD-00 Message is frozen

How do I thaw theese messages and how do I correct the procmail pipe?


Simon
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