[CentOS] Postfix will not start due to permission errors on CentOS 6.2 x86

[William Hooper]

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Gilbert Sebenste
<sebenste at weather.admin.niu.edu> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I cannot get the Postfix service to start on my pristine copy of CentOS
> 6.2 (installed straight from a DVD, and 6.2 directly, not 6.0 with
> upgrades...not thatit should matter).
>
> Anyway, I copied over /var/spool/mail to this system by using tar,
> as well as /etc/services and /etc/passwd, etc. Now, it doesn't want to
> start. I get permission errors like:

Did you relabel after copying?  I believe you want to look at
restorecon (or just relabel the whole filesystem).

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SELinux

-- 
William Hooper