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