Bug 669304

Summary:	mail-mta/postfix-3.3.1-r1 fails to set permissions on /usr/sbin/{postqueue,postdrop}
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Timo Rothenpieler <timo>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Eray Aslan <eras>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	gentoo_bugs_peep, net-mail+disabled, williamh
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Timo Rothenpieler 2018-10-22 10:48:42 UTC

After upgrading from 3.2.4 to 3.3.1-r1 I ended up with some of my system services seemingly randomly unable to send mail, even though it worked fine from the command line.

Found the following in my postfix log:
postfix/postfix-script[2883]: warning: not owned by group postdrop: /usr/sbin/postqueue
postfix/postfix-script[2884]: warning: not owned by group postdrop: /usr/sbin/postdrop
postfix/postfix-script[2886]: warning: not set-gid or not owner+group+world executable: /usr/sbin/postqueue
postfix/postfix-script[2887]: warning: not set-gid or not owner+group+world executable: /usr/sbin/postdrop

After doing as told by the warning (chgrp postdrop and chmod g+s), the warnings disappeared and my services can send mail again.

Looking at the ebuild, I'd assume that the call to "postfix set-permissions" would be supposed to set those.
Doing it manually shows it failing though, because I do not have any .proto or .default config files in my /etc/postfix dir, which probably makes it abort early, never setting those file permissions.

Comment 1 Philippe Chaintreuil 2019-03-26 20:31:37 UTC

Is this a dupe of bug #665280?  ("mail-mta/postfix-3.3.1-r1: Many permissions incorrect after update, postfix functionality impaired")

Comment 2 Eray Aslan gentoo-dev

2021-11-09 06:02:35 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 665280 ***