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Drew Marshall drew at THEMARSHALLS.CO.UK
Fri Apr 23 13:09:50 IST 2004


Jens W. Skov - JS Consult said:
> I just noticed that mailscanner complained that /var/spool/postfix was not
> writeable by user postfix.
> I chowned the dir to postfix:postfix. Now postfix complains that it's not
> owned by root? Any idea why?

Postfix is a funny beast, it wants the /var/spool/postfix directory to be
owned by root but wants ../postfix/* to be owned by postfix:postfix. Just
cd /var/spool/postfix then chown -R postfix:postfix * and that should make
it happy.

Drew

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