some more logs I would like to give as I am struck up here and need help. The permission of some of the directories are
# ls -l / drwxr-xr-x 2 girish root 0 Jan 1 1970 bin drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 debug drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 3660 Jun 11 21:36 dev drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 0 Sep 12 16:54 etc drwxrwsr-x 3 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 home drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 lib drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 mnt drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 opt dr-xr-xr-x 59 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 proc drwx------ 2 root root 0 Sep 13 00:30 root drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 sbin drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 sys drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Sep 12 16:37 tmp drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 usr drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 0 Sep 12 16:43 var # ls -l /etc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 12 16:53 aliases -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 Sep 12 16:54 aliases.db -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 633 Jan 1 1970 fstab -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1036 Sep 12 16:53 group -rw-r----- 1 root root 13 Sep 12 16:53 gshadow -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Jan 1 1970 hostname -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20 Jun 11 21:36 hosts -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 108 Jan 1 1970 inetd.conf drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 init.d -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 493 Jan 1 1970 inittab -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 127 Jan 1 1970 ipkg.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 nsswitch.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2040 Jan 1 1970 passwd drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Sep 12 16:43 postfix -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 125 Jan 1 1970 profile -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 178 Jan 1 1970 protocols -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52 Sep 12 16:37 resolv.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 236 Sep 12 16:51 services # ls -l /lib/*nss* -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17824 Jan 1 1970 /lib/libnss_dns-2.3.6.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Jan 1 1970 /lib/libnss_dns.so.2 -> libnss_dns-2.3.6.so -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38352 Jan 1 1970 /lib/libnss_files-2.3.6.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 1 1970 /lib/libnss_files.so.2 -> libnss_files-2.3.6.so I am doing following steps to run postfix on my target platform 1. I compiled the postfix for a target platform. 2. used make non-interactive-package install_root=/some/where... to create a package 3. copied the package to target 4. postfix set-permissions 5. newaliases 6. postfix start I have given strace output messages previously. There is a permission denied message there. I did not get operation for which it got that error message. Girish
