Thanks! Meaningful responses below:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 9:17 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: alias directory owner, group, permissions
>
>
> "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:
YES, I did. That is probably the answer, but of course, I'm at work now and
can't try it out.
There is a good reason why I did that.
When I first installed it, following each step, it failed on the
local-to-local test.
I carefully went through each item of the intstallation to see what I missed
I had touched .qmail-postmater not .qmail-postmaster. I also missed the step
to echo ./Maildir/ to my .qmail file. That step has NO explanation by the
way! When I noticed that I figured out that this was a way of identifying
the Maildir directory and should also be in every .qmail
Anyway, so, I completely redid the steps to create the required users and of
course changed the UID in the process!
You're right that must be wrong, it may not be the only thing I did wrong
but that would certainly be wrong.
I will reinstall.
> 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". :-)
It's only obvious once you know that ./Maildir/ must be in a .qmail file to
use Maildirs. The Maildir install file has the echo step but absolutely no
mention of the meaning of that step to QMail. To me, it's obvious now but it
is not obvious to the unitiated which I was. It also makes no mention of the
need for a .qmail file containing ./Maildir/ in the etc/skel directory for
new users but DOES say that a Maildir folder must be there. (A Maildir is
created with makemaildir but does not create the requisite .qmail HIDDEN
file)
> >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.
>
When I wrote the email last night the fail was symptomless. Nothing
happened.
Later I got a reply back saying that the mail was undelivered for 4 hours
because of a read error (it's at home and I can't quote it right now).
> -Dave
>
Alex
