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Re: Errors in Exim, rebaseall, inetd.


Ross,

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 06:46:45AM -0500, Ross Hemingway wrote:
> [snip]
> 
> 3/  rebaseall script has a fault on line 91, where   if [ ! -w "$TmpDir" 
> ].    This always returns an error, despite the file location being OK 
> and writable.  It's probably a permission issue again.  If we comment 
> out this code part, the script does its job OK.

What is the permissions (i.e., ls -ld and getfacl) of $TmpDir?

BTW, you can set TMP or TEMP (to a known, good writable directory) or
unset TMP and TEMP (to use /tmp) to workaround this problem.

Jason

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