exim configuration error

[ckh]

I'm running FreeBSD 4.9 and have exim 4.24.

For quite some time I've been getting a permission error and a syntax error when every I use the exim configuration editor in either simple or advanced mode.

I get the following

-C Permission denied
Exim version 4.24 #4 built 10-Dec-2003 16:57:18
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2003
Probably Berkeley DB version 1.8x (native mode)
Support for: iconv() IPv6 PAM Perl OpenSSL
Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext spa
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore/mbx autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Contains exiscan-acl patch revision 13 (c) Tom Kistner [http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/]
Configuration file has an invalid syntax. Please try again.
/etc/exim.conf -> /usr/local/etc/exim/configure

I noticed that on my other freebsd server that exim 4.30 was updated but for some reason it wasn't updated on the machine with the error message.

Mail works properly but it just doesn't seem to upgrade.

Any clues as to where I can look?

CKH

 

[casey]

I can't help much, but have you tried
chown root /etc/exim.conf ?

How about
mv /etc/exim.conf /etc/exim.conf.bak

and then uploading your exim.conf file from the server that works?

 

[ckh]

Yep, tried the exim.conf and also tried the /usr/local/etc/exim/configure file also from the other server, didn't have any effect. Still get that darn error.

Checked the ownership of the exim.conf file and it matched the other server.

It's gotta be something else, but, I have no idea what. Also checked the flags to make sure the schg flag was set.

Thanks for trying though..

CKH

 

[casey]

Good luck. I'd try submitting a ticket to cpanel.

 

[NNNils]

Same here for a server with RH 9