7 messages in net.sourceforge.lists.courier-users[courier-users] Re: Permission issues...
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Patrick O'ReillyDec 15, 2003 1:22 am 
Vincent LeeDec 15, 2003 3:23 am 
Sam VarshavchikDec 15, 2003 4:09 am 
Tim HunterDec 15, 2003 4:10 am 
Vincent LeeDec 15, 2003 5:05 am 
Tim HunterDec 15, 2003 5:33 am 
Patrick O'ReillyDec 15, 2003 9:13 am 
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Subject:[courier-users] Re: Permission issues since moving to 0.44.0Actions...
From:Sam Varshavchik (mrs@courier-mta.com)
Date:Dec 15, 2003 4:09:44 am
List:net.sourceforge.lists.courier-users

Patrick O'Reilly writes:

Any ideas?

I used portupgrade on FreeBSD to move from 0.42 to 0.44, and since then I get errors like this in the maillog:

Dec 15 11:18:49 panther courieresmtpd: started,ip=[209.212.102.154] Dec 15 11:18:49 panther courieresmtpd: Permission denied Dec 15 11:18:49 panther courieresmtpd: Permission denied Dec 15 11:18:53 panther courieresmtpd: started,ip=[196.39.31.25] Dec 15 11:18:53 panther courieresmtpd: Permission denied Dec 15 11:18:53 panther courieresmtpd: Permission denied

I haven't been able to figure out what permission is being denied...

I have noticed that many of the courier processes are now running as user mailnull, even though I specify a user called courier in the esmtpd file. In desparation I even set mailnull and courier to the same userid, but no dice.

HHH EEE LLL PPP !!!

Your upgrade got screwed up. You compiled the new version of Courier specifying a different userid to run Courier as. As such, the permissions of configuration files, and many other files, are now completely wrong.

You'll need to uninstall Courier completely, then do a new install.