"Alex Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I just ran instcheck from my install directory and got the following
>message.
>
>instcheck: warning: /var/qmail/alias has wrong owner
>instcheck: warning: /var/qmail/alias has wrong group
>instcheck: warning: /var/qmail/alias has wrong permissions
>
>Boy, I didn't leave any any possible misconfiguration of this directory out
>in the cold!
>
>Anyway, so here is the scoop on the directory
>
>drwx------ 3 alias nofiles 1024 June 13 23:46 alias
Have you changed the UID's of any of the qmail accounts since you
built qmail? That's a no-no. If not, I don't know what the problem
is. Is should look something like:
root@sws5# ls -ld ~alias
drwxr-sr-x 2 alias qmail 4096 Oct 16 1998 /var/qmail/alias
>Now I tried changing the owner to root, qmaild, qmaill, qmailp, qmailq,
>qmailr, qmails but the complaint about the owner keeps happening
If all else fails, reinstall.
>I have read over the install files (as many as I could find without a LIST
>of all of them) and the apparently relevant one, INSTALL.alias makes no
>mention of the proper ownership, group, or permissions for alias
Because qmail installs the directories with the correct
owner/group/mode and expects you not to diddle them.
>(as well as
>not mentioning that the .qmail-postmaster, etc... files need to contain
>./Maildir/ if they are going to work with Maildirs which is the option I
>chose after READING the installation files, recommending it for all sorts of
>good reasons.
That's "obvious". :-)
>As near as I can tell my only real FAILURE is that I can't recieve mail from
>a remote host, but I'm not sure if this problem has anything to do with THAT
>problem.
Possibly. Depends upon how remote mail is failing.
-Dave
