{"id":798,"date":"2021-10-17T21:28:33","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T15:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/?p=798"},"modified":"2021-10-17T21:28:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T15:28:33","slug":"failed-to-open-db-file-var-spool-exim-db-ratelimit-permission-denied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/failed-to-open-db-file-var-spool-exim-db-ratelimit-permission-denied.html","title":{"rendered":"failed to open db file \/var\/spool\/exim\/db\/ratelimit: permission denied"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cpanel incoming mails are failing, with an error in the exim_mainlog as following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"generic\" data-enlighter-theme=\"\" data-enlighter-highlight=\"\" data-enlighter-linenumbers=\"\" data-enlighter-lineoffset=\"\" data-enlighter-title=\"\" data-enlighter-group=\"\">failed to open db file \/var\/spool\/exim\/db\/ratelimit: permission denied<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>The error is appearing due to some permission issues with the exim db or the files are corrupted. These files recreate when the exim restart. Hence, we can do the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"generic\" data-enlighter-theme=\"\" data-enlighter-highlight=\"\" data-enlighter-linenumbers=\"\" data-enlighter-lineoffset=\"\" data-enlighter-title=\"\" data-enlighter-group=\"\"># delete the db files\nrm -rf \/var\/spool\/exim\/db\/*\n\n# restart exim\nservice exim restart\n\n# fix permission of exim spool\nchown -Rf mailnull.mail \/var\/spool\/exim\nchmod 0750 \/var\/spool\/exim<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>You should be done now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cpanel incoming mails are failing, with an error in the exim_mainlog as following: The error is appearing due to some permission issues with the exim db or the files are corrupted. These files recreate when the exim restart. Hence, we can do the following: You should be done now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,32,13,211],"tags":[46,595,251],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":799,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}