perms on bayes_journal

[Scott Silva]

on 4-1-2008 6:00 AM Steve Campbell spake the following:
> 
> 
> 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
> 
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
> 
It could be, but I thing typing chown instead of chmod is a more reasonable 
explaination. You can chown by user or group id also.

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