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Re: aliases : appending e-mail to a file permissions

From: Victor Duchovni (Victor.Duchovnimorganstanley.com)
Date: Fri Apr 18 2008 - 08:52:16 CDT


On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 09:35:19AM -0400, Randy Ramsdell wrote:

> I am trying to run a script that parses a file which is created by
> "aliases." The file has perms of 600, owner "nobody." The only problem
> with this is that the same aliase line that creates the file, pipes to a
> script that cannot access the file. The script runs as postfix and the
> file owned by nobody. What is the easiest way to resolve this? Ideally
> that is a way to change the file ownership to postfix or run the script
> as nobody.

This is anecdotal report, please post concrete facts.

    - "postconf -n" output.
    - Relevant aliases file entries
    - Logs
    - Show permissions for every path component of the target file.

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        Viktor.

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