Dave and Tim,
root@sws5# ls -ld ~alias
drwxr-sr-x 2 alias qmail 4096 Oct 16 1998 /var/qmail/alias
This is your setup (Dave).
drwxr-sr-x 2 alias qmail 1024 May 19 15:16 alias/
here is what I have and instcheck does not complain
This is your setup (Tim)
Ok, so it's consistent.
So, what on earth is the "s"?
I've never seen that permission before. I have documentation for the
permission defintions for 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7 and they are all combinations
of -rwx. What value could s have in an octal system if all the other values
are already mapped?
Very confused.
Alex Miller
> -----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:
>
> 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
>
