On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 10:26 -0400, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: > What is the filesystem? Some legacy filesystems do not support changing > ownership. If it is ext2 or ext3, this won't be the issue. > > Also, I think you need the "-R" before the "root:root". ---- bash on redhat/fedora systems is pretty forgiving with this. You can locate the -R modifier pretty much anywhere...not so on other shells and other systems. ---- > > Heres the output of the directory listing > > > > [root@srvweb-02 vpopmail]# cd bin > > [root@srvweb-02 bin]# ls -al > > total 1332 > > drwxrwxrwx 2 4294967294 4294967294 4096 Oct 11 08:48 . > > drwx------ 8 4294967294 4294967294 4096 Oct 11 08:48 .. > > -rwxrwxrwx 1 4294967294 4294967294 49548 Oct 11 08:48 clearopensmtp > > -rwxrwxrwx 1 4294967294 4294967294 53692 Oct 11 08:48 dotqmail2valias > > -rwxrwxrwx 1 4294967294 4294967294 52236 Oct 11 08:48 vaddaliasdomain > > -rwxrwxrwx 1 4294967294 4294967294 52716 Oct 11 08:48 vadddomain ---- that looks suspiciously like a foreign filesystem (nfs) or a foreign owner (perhaps like Windows/NIS owner) - either way, this presents an issue that isn't working like you think it should be. ---- > > <snip> > > Those UID and GIDs look way too big. How was Qmail installed? If you > create a new file in the same directory, does it have root as the owner, > and can you change the owner/group? > > Cheers, Ben > > Gives me a file with the same owner/group and it cannot be changed > either > > > Qmail was installed using the procedure outlined at www.qmailrocks.org. > This question originated after I tried to run a script to fix the > permissions on the installation -- not sure how it originated, but its > apparently a known bug, the script failed with the same errors, so I > opened up the script and tired the processes manually -- and im hitting > the same errors ---- personally, I don't understand why one would use qmail on a redhat system when you've got postfix/sendmail for MTA and dovecot/cyrus-imapd for mail-delivery agents, they will be maintained, updated, their libraries are integrated and everything works exceptionally well. I would see if I could remove whatever qmail installed and start over as something broke during installation. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
