On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 01:15:59AM -0500, John wrote:

> I am seeing the above message associated with the following files -
> 
> /usr/lib/postfix/./sbin/lmtp
> /usr/lib/postfix/./libpostfix-tls.so.1
> /usr/lib/postfix/./libpostfix-util.so.1
> /usr/lib/postfix/./libpostfix-dns.so.1
> /usr/lib/postfix/./libpostfix-master.so.1
> /usr/lib/postfix/./libpostfix-global.so.1
> /usr/lib/postfix/sbin/./lmtp
> 
> My problem is that I cannot find these files - where should I look and why
> are they group/other writeable?

These are perhaps symbolic links.  You can check with:

    $ ls -l /usr/lib/postfix/./sbin/lmtp
    $ ls -l /usr/lib/postfix/./libpostfix-tls.so.1
    $ ls -l /usr/lib/postfix/./libpostfix-util.so.1
    $ ls -l /usr/lib/postfix/./libpostfix-dns.so.1
    $ ls -l /usr/lib/postfix/./libpostfix-master.so.1
    $ ls -l /usr/lib/postfix/./libpostfix-global.so.1
    $ ls -l /usr/lib/postfix/sbin/./lmtp

Postfix expects these to be actual files, not symlinks.  If they're
not as expected, someone messed up the packaging of Postfix on your
system.  The "postfix-files" file lists what Postfix expects to
find.  When reality differs, your installation is flawed.

For example, on Debian and Ubuntu systems, the Postfix package
includes a rather broken version of 'postfix-files'.  Your symptoms
look a bit different, but the idea's the same.

-- 
        Viktor.

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