Problems changing permissions

[Timothy A. Holmes]

> > Heres the output of the directory listing
> > 
> >  [root at srvweb-02 vpopmail]# cd bin
> > [root at 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
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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.
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[Timothy A. Holmes] 

Im not sure on that -- I was logged in as root on an SSH session -- via
putty when I installed it

> 
> <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
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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


[Timothy A. Holmes] 

As far as the reason for using qmail, it is the one that I have found
easy to understand instructions for setting up and using -- also this
machine is going to be a listserver so EZMLM being included in the setup
and instructions was a plus.

IM still a newbie to linux (just short of 1 year using it now) and I
still need cookbook instructions for a lot of things

TIM

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