-- Martin
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Fink Issue: Fink may temporarily break postfix Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:00:34 -0600 From: James Hammett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I installed nmap and a bunch of other utilities (Nesus, mozilla, etc). One of the dependencies required the password package. It appears to install several accounts. One of which is postfix. (Which already exists and gets over written)
The default Apple UID and GID for postfix is 27, the new UID and GID set by the fink is 255. This causes the program to loose access to various directories (and of course not to run):
drwx------ 17 27 wheel 578 8 Nov 08:27 active drwx------ 5 27 wheel 170 9 Nov 10:50 bounce drwx------ 2 27 wheel 68 26 Sep 01:25 corrupt drwx------ 2 27 wheel 68 26 Sep 01:25 defer drwx------ 2 27 wheel 68 26 Sep 01:25 deferred drwx------ 2 27 wheel 68 26 Sep 01:25 flush drwx------ 2 27 wheel 68 26 Sep 01:25 hold drwx------ 17 27 wheel 578 17 Nov 13:41 incoming drwx-wx--- 2 27 postdrop 68 26 Sep 01:25 maildrop drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 272 6 Nov 03:15 pid drwx------ 18 27 wheel 612 15 Nov 12:44 private drwx--x--- 7 27 postdrop 238 15 Nov 12:44 public
The simple solution is to change the UID for postfix and the postfix group back to 27. Once I did this, I was able to send mail.
This bug has been reported (by someone else :-):
([ 830356 ] postfix user/group not needed in Panther)
and it has been put into the unstable tree for fink.
(According to the notes on the bug page).later, James -- "The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time." (Jack London) _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
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