[CentOS] lstat() problem solved - Re: New mailserver problems

[Les Mikesell]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Without selinux, permission errors are usually pretty straightforward
>> - that is, if something logs a 'permission denied', it means exactly
>> that.  I could be anywhere up the path, or the program accessing it
>> might not have the uid you expect, though.
>>
> It was permissions.  I had added clam to the amavis group:
>
> gpasswd -a clam amavis
>
> But not given the group permissions to the directory.  First did:
>
> chmod g+rx /var/spool/amavisd/tmp
>
> But was still getting the error so I went up a level:
>
> chmod g+rx /var/spool/amavisd
>
> and no longer getting the error.
>
> I **AM** making good notes on all of this.  Perhaps I will someday put them
> up in Centos docs...

It would be even nicer if the packages that are likely to need to
access each other's files/sockets  in the course of mail delivery had
a common group and appropriate permissions.   I haven't set up a mail
server for a while, but used to have the same issues with
sendmail/mimedefang/clamav.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com
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