[nmglug] Postfix

Andres Paglayan andres at paglayan.com
Tue Feb 1 14:52:26 PST 2005


here is what I got

/usr/sbin/postdrop   root  postdrop
/usr/sbin/postqueue  root  postdrop

drwxr-xr-x  19 root    root     4096 2004-12-24 15:44 .
drwxr-xr-x  10 root    root     4096 2004-11-05 15:30 ..
drwx------  18 postfix root     4096 2004-11-19 21:03 active
drwx------   3 postfix root     4096 2004-10-31 09:11 bounce
drwx------   2 postfix root     4096 2004-10-27 16:42 corrupt
drwx------   4 postfix root     4096 2004-11-03 16:52 defer
drwx------   3 postfix root     4096 2004-11-03 15:58 deferred
drwxr-xr-x   2 root    root     4096 2004-12-24 15:44 etc
drwx------   2 postfix root     4096 2004-10-27 16:42 flush
drwx------   2 postfix root     4096 2004-10-27 16:42 hold
drwx------  18 postfix root     4096 2005-01-10 10:33 incoming
drwxr-xr-x   2 root    root     4096 2004-12-24 15:44 lib
drwx-wx--T   2 postfix postdrop 4096 2005-01-10 10:33 maildrop
drwxr-xr-x   2 postfix root     4096 2004-11-05 15:57 pid
drwx------   2 postfix root     4096 2004-12-24 14:42 private
-rw-------   1 root    root     1024 2004-12-25 05:44 prng_exch
drwx--s---   2 postfix postdrop 4096 2004-12-24 14:42 public
drwx------   2 postfix root     4096 2004-10-27 16:42 saved
drwx------   2 postfix root     4096 2004-10-27 16:42 trace
drwxr-xr-x   3 root    root     4096 2004-10-27 16:42 usr


Mars DeLapp wrote:

> Opps! I was trying to coordinate UIDs and GIDs between computers and I 
> screwed up the ownership of some files when I ran the following command.
>
>   find / -group 1002 -print -exec chown 202 {} \;
>
> that should have been "chown :202"
>
> So I screwed up the owner of all the files where the group is postdrop.
>
> Can anyone running Postfix on a Debian system tell me who the owner of 
> the following directories should be:
> /usr/sbin/postdrop   root postdrop
> /usr/sbin/postqueue  root postdrop
> /var/spool/postfix/public
> /var/spool/postfix/public/pickup
> /var/spool/postfix/public/cleanup
> /var/spool/postfix/public/qmgr
> /var/spool/postfix/public/flush
> /var/spool/postfix/public/showq
> /var/spool/postfix/maildrop
>
> the output of this command should do it:
> find / -group postdrop -print -exec ls -l {} \;
>
> I suspect they should all be owned by postfix but I want to make sure.
>
> Thanks,
> Mars
>
>





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