On 1 Dec 2008 at 0:45, Bill Cole wrote: > Daryl wrote: > > On 30 Nov 2008 at 21:30, Bill Cole wrote: > > > >> Daryl wrote: > >>> Greetings, > >>> For the second time in a month I have a postfix/sendmail: > >>> fatal: chdir > >>> /var/spool/postfix Permission denied error. > >>> There are no possible solutions in my logs, and googling, has found > >>> nothing. My permissions > >>> for postfix are correct; > >>> > >>> #ls -ld /var/spool/postfix > >>> drwxrwx--- 20 root postfix 4096 2008-11-14 11:57 /var/spool/postfix > >> That is not correct. > >> > > I don't have SElinux running and changing the permissions to 755 on > > /var/spool/postfix does > > not change anything . > > > > Yes, postfix is chrooted with my master.cf as the following > > I wish you luck. > > Since you've already determined that there's nothing useful in your logs or > in a description of the functional context of your problem or in a > 'postconf -n' output or what OS you are using or what version of Postfix you > are running, and you're doing something that is generally not recommended, > and changing permissions from the installation defaults, you clearly are > working at a far higher level of expertise that I could dream of for myself, > and I apologize for wasting your time in noting that your version of > "correct" diverged from that of mundanes like myself, which is merely > "normal." > > Again, quite sincerely, I wish you good luck. Please do the plodders of the > Postfix community such as myself a favor and publish your fix when you > figure it out. > > Do myself and other people out there and forget the sarcasm!! Nothing I have written has assumed I am "above" all other intelligence! I apologise for not stating that I am running Debian Etch and the only error in my logs are; postfix/sendmail: fatal: chdir /var/spool/postfix Permission denied.
I have since taken Postfix out of chroot rebooted and still no change. I have also changed pemissions to 755 on /var/spool/postfix. Googling, adding postfix to sasl group has solved other people's problems but I'm still stuck. This is the second time this has happened, and both times I have been configuring other programmes, ie: samba, as previously stated. Ironically I have also had /etc/cron.daily/man-db: find: /var/cache: Permission denied fopen: Permission denied fopen: Permission denied fopen: Permission denied. mail on a daily basis.
