Steffan Hoeke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 01:55:14AM +0200, clemensF wrote:
>> > Steffan Hoeke:
>> 
>> > "Ok, the /var/log/qmail permissions weren't the problem
>> > /var/qmail/supervise and all in it needed to be owned by qmaill as well ;)"
>> 
>> why that?
>No other reason than : Before the permission change qmail start would
>freak out with unable to change to current directory.  When i changed
>the permissions on /var/qmail/supervise and it's subs to qmaill.qmail
>it worked like a charm.

The real reason is that multilog runs as user qmaill.

>I know it's not a scientific approach, but i couldn't find anything
>in lwq about the proper permissions (Dave, if you're reading this
>;-))

It's in there:

  Then set up the log directories:

    mkdir -p /var/log/qmail/smtpd
    chown qmaill /var/log/qmail /var/log/qmail/smtpd

-Dave

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