perms on bayes_journal

[Steve Campbell]

Scott Silva wrote:
> 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.

Somehow, Scott, I didn't see that in your previous post. We're on the 
same page, though. What every it was, it wasn't modded to 777.

Old eyes and all
Steve