On Wednesday 14 December 2011 08:16:24 Simon Parsons wrote: > Hi bascule > > I don't think it's permissions, but owners and groups that are your > problem. > > The second set of errors are about groups and owners. They can differ > from distribution to distribution - you had "yum" listed on your last > e-mail, which implies a Fedora/RedHat-based installation was on there > previously. hi, thanks for the reply, the previous installation was mandriva 2009 so i can't explain the reference to yum :) the other reply from David Walser makes some sense, after i changed groups and owners as indicated by one of the error mails my postfix stopped working, i changed it back and all seems well so far
bascule -- "the auspices are fair to light with a small chance of judgement day later in the eon..." - mooncalf
