file permission denied, install postfix
 

Frustrated newbie trying to install a BASIC mailserver. Trying to use postfix.

Compiled source.
Configured (I think)

When check the configuration using.....

'postfix check'

I get an error 'postfix: fatal: /etc/postfix/postfix-script: Permission denied
'

I've tried to change that directory permission using various chmod commands like

chmod 777 /etc/postfix/postfix-script

but still get the same error of permission denied when I 'postfix check'

Not sure what or why this is happening.

Thanks for any help,

Tony

odd. does the interpreter exist on your system? check the first line of the file, normally /bin/sh which should exist... also show us "ls -l /etc/postfix" please.

ls -l
 

drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Apr 25 11:28 postfix-script

sorry
 

Sorry, for being an idiot, but not sure what you mean by the interpreter and checking the file (which file? what interpreter ?)

ok well.. "postfix_script" is clearly a directory.... see the "d" at the start there... no wonder it won't run!

yep THANKS. Not sure why it got setup that way.

Will have to track down what went wrong during the install.

Tony

Disable SElinux
 

This error can occur if you have SElinux enabled on your system. Disable SElinux if it is active.

I just entered "postfix check" in a terminal and was told "postfix" is in sbin and requires superuser privileges. Maybe you need sudo. You would certainly need that to change permissions on a folder in /etc, which you should not do under any circumstances.