Strange exim .include behavior

[gdub]

Nigel Wade wrote:
> gdub wrote:
 >>
>> The trouble is with a particular
>> .include statement. It works find on the
>> Gentoo machines but not on the FC4.
>> [...]
>>   failed to open included configuration file 
>> /var/local/mailconfig/local/localdelivery
>> [...]
>> The error occurs when I run exim with
>> -bV or -bh. But, when I start the exim daemon,
>> there is no error.
>>
>> The even weirder thing is that if I move the
>> .include line from the transport section up
>> to the main section, it includes just fine
>> [...]
 >>
> You might want to try asking this on the Exim mailing list, 

Good suggestion. That's next.

> 
> I don't personally use .include so I can't help you. The only real 
> difference between running in foreground and daemon mode is the user 
> that Exim is running as. When in daemon mode Exim normally runs as 
> exim.mail. Are you comlpetely sure that the permissions on that file are 
> identical, at the group and world level, and that SELinux isn't getting 
> in the way?

And that difference was my first suspect.

Since I started tracking it down, I've only
use chmod -R * and chown -R * on the entire config
dir struct--and giving rw to u,g,&o. Plus there's
the thing that it includes from the main config
section but not from the transport section.

But you're right, this is a Q: for the exim
list. I had just hoped that an FC4 user
might have seen it since it seems particular
to this Fedora box.


   -dub