On Thursday 30 June 2005 04:31 pm, James McMillan wrote: > Ok, just for fun... I chmod -R 777 the postmaster dir. > > Then I logged in, and sent a mail, and back, then checked the new > permissions. > > Now the directory shows uid 89, which is my old mailservers uid for > vpopmail. The new server's vpopmail uid 1008. > > It seems that the uid is statically compiled somewhere.... I just don't > know where.
it's in the /var/qmail/users/assign file.
Generally when you migrate between systems you should make sure all relevant
information (uids, paths to binaries/directories, etc) are all the same as
they were on the old system. Otherwise you will have problems like the one
you are experiencing now.
-Jeremy
--
Jeremy Kitchen ++ Systems Administrator ++ Inter7 Internet Technologies, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ inter7.com ++ 866.528.3530 ++ 815.776.9465 int'l
kitchen @ #qmail #gentoo on EFnet IRC ++ scriptkitchen.com/qmail
GnuPG Key ID: 481BF7E2 ++ qmail wiki @ qmailwiki.org !!
pgpRJWm0BZFAU.pgp
Description: PGP signature
