Qmail ls -l /var/qmail giving "oot" owner

606166 · 02-11-2018, 12:34 PM

I am trying very desperately to make Qmail work and failing quite miserably.

ls -l /var/qmail
total 16
drwxr-sr-x. 2 1002 1003 154 Dec 10 13:16 alias
drwxr-xr-x. 2 oot 1003 4096 Feb 11 12:18 bin
drwxr-xr-x. 2 oot 1003 147 Dec 10 13:35 boot
drwxr-xr-x. 2 oot 1003 149 Feb 11 11:30 control
drwxr-xr-x. 2 oot 1003 4096 Dec 10 12:20 doc
drwxr-xr-x. 10 oot 1003 102 Dec 10 12:20 man
drwsr-xr-x. 11 1006 1003 118 Dec 10 12:20 queue
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 oot root 215 Jan 28 12:45 rc
-rw-r--r--. 1 oot root 204 Jan 28 12:44 rc-backup.txt
drwxr-xr-x. 5 oot root 62 Jan 28 13:01 supervise
drwxr-xr-x. 2 oot 1003 6 Dec 10 12:20 users

I know these can't be right because who the hell is oot and qmail is owned by 2107 and nofiles by 2108.
Originally I did have these as 1003 and I believe 1006 but had to change them and now am quite lost. For better visualization: https://imgur.com/a/GMw6W

scasey · 02-11-2018, 02:30 PM

Use ls -n to see the numeric uid for "oot" -- there must be a user id of oot for that to be displayed in the long listing.
How did you change the IDs? Why did you change them?
My qmail installation looks like this:

Code:

ls -l /var/qmail
total 32
drwxr-sr-x.  2 alias   qmail   4096 Oct  8 09:58 alias
drwxr-xr-x.  2 root    qmail   4096 Sep 28 11:17 bin
drwxr-xr-x.  2 root    qmail   4096 Sep 20 14:16 boot
drwxr-xr-x.  3 root    qmail   4096 Jan  2 14:44 control
drwxr-xr-x.  3 root    qmail   4096 Sep 25 17:49 doc
drwxr-xr-x. 10 root    qmail     94 Sep 20 14:15 man
drwxr-x---. 11 qmailq  qmail   4096 Sep 20 14:15 queue
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 root    qmail    412 Sep 25 16:51 rc
drwxr-s---.  3 simscan simscan   35 Feb 11 13:13 simscan
drwxr-xr-x.  9 root    root    4096 Aug 24  2013 supervise
drwxr-xr-x.  2 root    qmail      6 Sep 20 14:15 users

where qmail is uid 4096, qmailq is 8012, and simscan (which you don't appear to be using)is 502
BUT ownership of files within those directories varies quite a bit, so a manual change of ownership will probably have munged things up, in which case, starting over will probably be the easiest course.

Which installation/setup instructions did you use? Some are a bit misleading. All are semi-complicated.
I use and recommend John Simpson's patches and instructions here when Dan Bernstein's pages get confusing or obtuse. Besides, there are a couple of anomolies that need patching and John has done an excellent job managing and documenting those.

bathory · 02-11-2018, 02:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 606166

I am trying very desperately to make Qmail work and failing quite miserably.

ls -l /var/qmail
total 16
drwxr-sr-x. 2 1002 1003 154 Dec 10 13:16 alias
drwxr-xr-x. 2 oot 1003 4096 Feb 11 12:18 bin
drwxr-xr-x. 2 oot 1003 147 Dec 10 13:35 boot
drwxr-xr-x. 2 oot 1003 149 Feb 11 11:30 control
drwxr-xr-x. 2 oot 1003 4096 Dec 10 12:20 doc
drwxr-xr-x. 10 oot 1003 102 Dec 10 12:20 man
drwsr-xr-x. 11 1006 1003 118 Dec 10 12:20 queue
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 oot root 215 Jan 28 12:45 rc
-rw-r--r--. 1 oot root 204 Jan 28 12:44 rc-backup.txt
drwxr-xr-x. 5 oot root 62 Jan 28 13:01 supervise
drwxr-xr-x. 2 oot 1003 6 Dec 10 12:20 users

I know these can't be right because who the hell is oot and qmail is owned by 2107 and nofiles by 2108.
Originally I did have these as 1003 and I believe 1006 but had to change them and now am quite lost. For better visualization: https://imgur.com/a/GMw6W

Like in your other thread, you need to follow exactly the instructions of LWQ,
Since you've messed up the installation very badly, I suggest you to delete anything you already done and start from scratch.