Postfix doesn't start

Vinzstyle vinzstyle at free.fr
Sun Oct 4 19:33:23 UTC 2009


Le dimanche 4 octobre 2009 21:09:05 jgimer at gmail.com, vous avez écrit :
> What are the actual permissions on the lock file, not just the containing
> directory?
>
> Josh
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vinzstyle <vinzstyle at free.fr>
> Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 20:41:32
> To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Subject: Postfix doesn't start
>
> Hi,
>
> I installed Postfix with PCRE support from the ports collection, but I get
> this error when I try to start it :
>
> Oct  4 20:22:09 mail postfix/postfix-script[47114]: starting the Postfix
> mail system
> Oct  4 20:22:09 mail postfix/master[47115]: fatal: open lock file
> /var/db/postfix/master.lock: cannot open file: Permission denied
>
> [root at mail /]# ls -ld /var/db/postfix/
> drwx------  2 postfix  wheel  512 Oct  4 20:16 /var/db/postfix/
>
> The "mail_owner" directive is set to "postfix" in main.cf
>
> Is there some things to set up after the "make install" ? Did I miss
> something ?
>
> I'm running FreeBSD-7.2-RELEASE, and Postfix(-2.5.6,1) is started inside a
> jail.
>
> Thanks for your help :)
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The file isn't created by "make install". If I create it with permissions 666 
and postfix as owner, I get the same error message...


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