@lbutlr: > On 09 Aug 2016, at 09:00, Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote: > > Thanks. The "cp -p" feature was not portable in the days that this = > script > > was written, but it should be safe to use now. > > Hmm. I kind of thought that "If the user ID and group ID cannot be = > preserved, no error message is displayed and the exit value is not = > altered=E2=80=9D was a bit of a problem, since if a key part of the -p = > flag fails, there=E2=80=99s no errr condition.
It's not a problem here, because the Postfix installation procedure will set the ownership and permission bits, and will report any failures setting those. Wietse