On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 07:37:54PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: > Noel Jones: > > With postfix-2.9-RC2 on FreeBSD 8.1 > > > > I assume the "Operation not permitted" message is an artifact > > of writing to a disconnected socket or such and nothing to > > worry about? Only happens on a small percentage of connections > > rejected by postscreen. > > Network writes can fail for all kinds of reasons, and therefore > postscreen reports only unusual errors. EPERM After writing to a > socket is unusual, because UNIX systems don't change read/write > permissions *after* a file handle is created. > > Looking over the last year of logs I see 'Operation not permitted' > logged by FreeBSD 8.2 around the time when I had to renumber my > IPv6 subnet.
I don't keep logs going back that far, only 4-5 weeks, but my (also not busy) Linux x86_64 host has none of these. Running various 2.9 snapshots during that time. (Going to install RC2 tonight.) -- http://rob0.nodns4.us/ -- system administration and consulting Offlist GMX mail is seen only if "/dev/rob0" is in the Subject:
