perms on bayes_journal

Scott Silva ssilva at sgvwater.com
Tue Apr 1 00:43:50 IST 2008


on 3-31-2008 2:08 PM Johnny Stork spake the following:
> I have found for some reason, on my MS (current) setup running on 
> Centos5, that the files in /etc/Mailcanner/bayes/ keep getting the 
> permissions changed and I am not sure how this is happening. Right now 
> they show
> 
> root at gateway:/etc/MailScanner# ls -la bayes/
> total 14464
> drwxrwxrwx 2  777 root     4096 Mar 31 13:31 .
> drwxr-xr-x 6 root root     4096 Mar 31 13:04 ..
> -rw------- 1  777 root    48480 Mar 31 14:01 bayes_journal
> -rwxrwxrwx 1  777 root     1152 Mar 31 13:41 bayes.mutex
> -rwxrwxrwx 1  777 root 10514432 Mar 31 13:41 bayes_seen
> -rw------- 1  777 root  5308416 Mar 31 13:41 bayes_toks
> -rwxrwxrwx 1  777 root      423 Sep 24  2007 razor-agent.log
> -rwxrwxrwx 1  777 root        0 Sep 24  2007 Starting
> -rwxrwxrwx 1  777 root        0 Sep 24  2007 Update
> 
> 
> 
> 
> And so bayes_journal and bayes_toks cant be accessed by MailScanner 
> which runs as root. I have to go in an chmod 777 bayes* in order for 
> MailScanner/SA to access those files, or to show the Bayes stats in the 
> MailWatch interface.
> 
> Is there some place I should be setting the permissions for those files? 
> I dont want to have to keep going in an manually changing the modes.
It looks like at one time you CHOWN'd to 777, which probably isn't what you 
wanted.

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