postfix catch-22...

[Jerry]

On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 10:01:28 +0000, Matthew Seaman stated:

>Dear maintainer,
>
>Had an issue with updating from 2.11.1_4,1 to 2.11.3_1,1:  it looks like
>you can't win with the ownership of /var/spool/postfix:
>
>On restart after updating the package:
>
>{{{
>smtp-2:/var/spool/postfix:# service postfix restart
>postfix/postfix-script: stopping the Postfix mail system
>postsuper: fatal: scan_dir_push: open directory defer: Permission denied
>postfix/postfix-script: fatal: Postfix integrity check failed!
>}}}
>
>Googling shows this to be a problem with the ownership of
>/var/spool/postfix.  One 'chown postfix /var/spool/postfix' later, and
>postfix will now at least start, but it clearly isn't happy about it.
>
>{{{
>smtp-2:/var/spool/postfix:# chown postfix .
>smtp-2:/var/spool/postfix:# service postfix restart
>postfix/postfix-script: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running
>postfix/postfix-script: warning: not owned by root: /var/spool/postfix
>postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system
>}}}
>
>{{{
>smtp-2:/var/spool/postfix:# postfix check
>postfix/postfix-script: warning: not owned by root: /var/spool/postfix
>smtp-2:/var/spool/postfix:# ls -ld /var/spool/postfix
>drwx------  16 postfix  postfix  16 Nov 10 00:27 /var/spool/postfix/
>}}}
>
>It seems from the pkg-plist that postfix:postfix and 0700 are the
>intended ownership and permissions:
>
>https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/mail/postfix/pkg-plist?r1=372370&r2=372369&pathrev=372370
>
>However updating via pkg(8) didn't seem to pick up the ownership change
>on /var/spool/postfix -- it got the chmod to 0700 though.
>
>pkg(8) not behaving quite right aside, I'm not convinced that
>postfix:postfix and 0700 is correct for /var/spool/postfix -- it used to
>be root:postfix and move 0755, which seems to allow postfix to run
>without complaint:
>
>{{{
>smtp-2:/var/spool/postfix:# chmod 755 .
>smtp-2:/var/spool/postfix:# chown root .
>smtp-2:/var/spool/postfix:# postfix check
>smtp-2:/var/spool/postfix:# service postfix restart
>postfix/postfix-script: stopping the Postfix mail system
>postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system
>}}}
>
>	Cheers,
>
>	Matthew
>


mail_version = 2.12-20141020 reported error with file permissions also;
although it did start.

-- 
Jerry
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