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Re: permission problem

From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Tue Jul 01 2003 - 11:42:55 CDT


Robin Lynn Frank:
> We're setting up a new server and before hauling down all the stuff I need to
> go to the latest & greatest, I allowed the OS installation (Mandrake 9.0) to
> put its rpm for postfix 1.1.x over which I then compiled and installed
> 1.1.12. Postfix was complaining about a whole bunch of permissions being
> wrong and I corrected all of them except:
> postdrop: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop/619163.8520:
> Permission denied
>
> A hint as to what needs changing would be appreciated.

Don't fix permissions by hand. Use /etc/post-install instead.