Re: question marks on permissions/owner

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question marks on permissions/owner
\ Matthew Tice (14 Mar 2008)
. \ Matthew Tice (14 Mar 2008)
. . \ (Wietse Venema) (14 Mar 2008)

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Subject:	Re: question marks on permissions/owner
Group:	Postfix-users
From:	(Wietse Venema)
Date:	14 Mar 2008

Matthew Tice:
> > drwx------ 2 postfix root 640032 Mar 14 07:09 active
> > drwxr-xr-x 4 vscan vscan 176 Mar 14 07:20 amavis
> > drwx------ 2 postfix root 48 Mar 14 07:08 bounce
> > drwx------ 2 postfix root 48 Sep 18 15:03 corrupt
> > drwx------ 18 postfix root 432 Mar 13 12:56 defer
> > drwx------ 18 postfix root 432 Mar 13 12:56 deferred
> > drwx------ 2 postfix root 328 Mar 14 01:45 flush
> > drwx------ 2 postfix root 48 Sep 18 15:03 hold
> > drwx------ 2 postfix root 728496 Mar 14 07:09 incoming
> > ?????????? ? ? ? ? ? maildrop
> > ?????????? ? ? ? ? ? pid
> > ?????????? ? ? ? ? ? private
> > ?????????? ? ? ? ? ? public
> > ?????????? ? ? ? ? ? saved
> > ?????????? ? ? ? ? ? trace

Suggest rebooting single-user mode (read-only mount) and running
fsck, e2fsck, etc. until the systems stops yelling at you.

Then you can re-create directories and reconstruct Postfix permissions
with:

# postfix check
# postfix set-permissions

Wietse