permissions problem on startup

[Julian Field]

John Jolet wrote:
>
> On Feb 5, 2006, at 7:02 AM, Julian Field wrote:
>
>> John Jolet wrote:
>>> I'm having a problem that I saw in the archives someone else having, 
>>> but I couldn't find a solution.  Running on gentoo with postfix.  If 
>>> I set the Run As user to postfix, I get: Cannot open config file 
>>> /opt/MailScanner/etc/MailScanner.conf, Permission denied at 
>>> /opt/MailScanner/lib/MailScanner/Config.pm line 597.
>> If this is not a permissions problem on the file, then it is a 
>> problem with the perms of the dir or one of its parents. Don't forget 
>> that the postfix user has to be to navigate down to the file, as well 
>> as just read the file. Ensure you have r-x on the directories.
>>>
> yeah, I thought of that.  If I give postfix a shell, su - postfix I 
> can view the file just fine.  It appeared to me when I looked at that 
> module that it was mostly concerned with ldap servers.  was I 
> incorrect?  I don't have any, and that portion of the config file is 
> commented out.  just grasping at straws at this point. 

I would not advise you try to work out how the configuration compiler 
works, it's pretty complex. :-)

If you do su - postfix then cd / then cd down each dir to the file's 
location, does that all work at every step?

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