[CentOS] postfix on centos 7

Larry Martell
Fri, 07 Sep 2018 17:47:09 -0000

On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 9:13 PM, Peter <peter at pajamian.dhs.org>
wrote:
> On 07/09/18 07:15, Larry Martell wrote:
>> When I try and send mail I see this in the maillog:
>>
>> Sep  6 11:59:48 postfix/sendmail[11059]: fatal: open
>> /etc/postfix/main.cf: Permission denied
>>
>> But /etc/postfix/main.cf is world readable:
>>
>> $ ls -l /etc/postfix/main.cf
>> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 27176 Jun  9  2014 /etc/postfix/main.cf
>
> Check the output of:
>
> rpm -Va postfix\*
>
> If it shows no output then everything should be fine.

Got no output.

> Otherwise the
> output will show you what files have had permissions changed (or
> anything else changed) since postfix was installed.
>
> I don't think this checks selinux contexts, but it should find any
other
> permissions issues.
>
> You can fix by re-installing postfix:
>
> yum reinstall postfix\*

I did that anyway, and it working now. Thanks!