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Re: Permission denied error

From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Mon Dec 01 2008 - 05:44:12 CST


Daryl:
> Greetings,
> For the second time in a month I have a postfix/sendmail: fatal: chdir
> /var/spool/postfix Permission denied error.
> There are no possible solutions in my logs, and googling, has found nothing. My permissions
> for postfix are correct;
>
> #ls -ld /var/spool/postfix
> drwxrwx--- 20 root postfix 4096 2008-11-14 11:57 /var/spool/postfix

Run:
        postfix set-permissions

to fix this.

        Wietse

> Running postfix check recently warned me about root not owning certain dir. which I have
> changed.
>
> I have recently re-configured SAMBA on the same server and until then postfix was working
> fine. Just curious to know if somebody has had the same problems.
>
> Any help much appreciated!
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