Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 11:03:46 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail directory ownership changed Message-ID: <20030201110346.GB84798@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <000001c2c994$ff9a99e0$0400a8c0@RUKI> References: <000001c2c994$ff9a99e0$0400a8c0@RUKI>
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On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 07:55:24PM -0600, Joey Teel wrote:
> A few days ago I started getting errors in my syslog saying that
> sendmail couldn't write to the mail directories, on inspection of the
> permissions, I discovered that all the mail directories had been changed
> to be owned by my personal UID and GID
>
> Can someone tell me what the proper permissions should be on the mail
> directories used by sendmail for it's queue?
Take a look at the mtree(8) man page, and then try this:
# cd /var
# mtree -eU -f /etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist
# cd /
# mtree -eU -f /etc/mtree/BSD.sendmail.dist
Cheers,
Matthew
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