severity 575670 normal tags 575670 unreproducible thanks On Sat, 27 Mar 2010, John Wenger wrote:
> Package: postfix > Version: 2.5.5-1.1 > Severity: critical > Justification: breaks unrelated software > > Shouldn't the /var/mail directory be owned by the group mail instead > of group man? Looks like a typo to me. [...] Yes, the /var/mail directory is owned by the group mail. The default permissions are set by base-files in its postinst (on the initial install) and I doubt very much that postfix changes them. You are reporting this against 2.5.5-1.1 which is the version in stable. If this were a simple typo somewhere, as you suggest, we would have noticed already, as Debian stable and postfix are used by a lot of people, so I bet that there is something non-standard in your machine that triggered this problem and it might even be not a problem in postfix at all. As the severity of this bug would prevent the version in unstable to enter testing, I'm downgrading it. > Debian Release: 5.0.4 > APT prefers stable > APT policy: (500, 'stable') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-128.2.1.el5.028stab064.7 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Ok, there is a non-standard thing here. The default kernel for lenny is 2.6.26-2. However, an old kernel does not make /var/mail to change permissions magically. Is this the only non-standard thing in your machine? Have you installed software in a non-standard way in your machine in the past? (i.e. not from debian official repositories). Have you upgraded everything to lenny? This is the type of questions that you should ask yourself before reporting a bug. Otherwise, without a way to reproduce this bug, the report will not be very useful. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
