On August 9, 2017 2:03:47 PM EDT, Michael Fox <n...@mefox.org> wrote: >I'm building a new 16.04 machine using the distro package for postfix >(v3.1.0). The main.cf and master.cf files are still at defaults. > >I ran "postfix check" and it's listing warnings about some library >files. >This didn't happen on Ubuntu 14.04. > >I don't understand what it's trying to tell me or what I need to do >about >it. The output is below. Should I do something about this and, if so, >what? > >Thanks in advance, >Michael > >$ sudo postfix check >postfix: Postfix is running with backwards-compatible default settings >postfix: See http://www.postfix.org/COMPATIBILITY_README.html for >details >postfix: To disable backwards compatibility use "postconf >compatibility_level=2" and "postfix reload" >postfix/postfix-script: warning: group or other writable: >/usr/lib/postfix/./sbin/lmtp >postfix/postfix-script: warning: group or other writable: >/usr/lib/postfix/./libpostfix-dns.so.1 >postfix/postfix-script: warning: group or other writable: >/usr/lib/postfix/./libpostfix-global.so.1 >postfix/postfix-script: warning: group or other writable: >/usr/lib/postfix/./libpostfix-master.so.1 >postfix/postfix-script: warning: group or other writable: >/usr/lib/postfix/./libpostfix-util.so.1 >postfix/postfix-script: warning: group or other writable: >/usr/lib/postfix/./libpostfix-tls.so.1 >postfix/postfix-script: warning: group or other writable: >/usr/lib/postfix/sbin/./lmtp >$ >$ ls -l /usr/lib/postfix >total 764 >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Apr 13 2016 libpostfix-dns.so.1 -> >libpostfix-dns.so.1.0.1 >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26968 Apr 13 2016 libpostfix-dns.so.1.0.1 >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Apr 13 2016 libpostfix-global.so.1 -> >libpostfix-global.so.1.0.1 >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 281152 Apr 13 2016 libpostfix-global.so.1.0.1 >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Apr 13 2016 libpostfix-master.so.1 -> >libpostfix-master.so.1.0.1 >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39472 Apr 13 2016 libpostfix-master.so.1.0.1 >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Apr 13 2016 libpostfix-tls.so.1 -> >libpostfix-tls.so.1.0.1 >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 103344 Apr 13 2016 libpostfix-tls.so.1.0.1 >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Apr 13 2016 libpostfix-util.so.1 -> >libpostfix-util.so.1.0.1 >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 264504 Apr 13 2016 libpostfix-util.so.1.0.1 >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13052 Apr 13 2016 postfix_groups.pl >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18560 Apr 13 2016 postfix-pcre.so.1.0.1 >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14504 Apr 13 2016 postfix-sqlite.so.1.0.1 >drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 23 08:41 sbin >$ >$ postconf -d | grep mail_version >mail_version = 3.1.0 >milter_macro_v = $mail_name $mail_version
We (the Debian Postfix maintainers) got this resolved, but not for that version (Ubuntu Postfix packages are synched from Debian based on Ubuntu schedule). These are cosmetic and won't cause actual problems. Scott K