perms on bayes_journal

[Steve Campbell]

Scott Silva wrote:
> 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

>>
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>> 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.
>

Isn't that an invalid user '777' and not a chmod '777'? Did you copy 
these from another machine that had a user with 777 as the user id and 
that doesn't exist on the current machine?

Steve