On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 12:01:03PM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> v74:/# tail -f /var/log/mail.log
> Sep 8 09:49:42 v74 postfix/cleanup[4225]: fatal: trace: remove 399B344000D8 log:
Permission denied
>
> It looks as if the ownerships and flags on postfix
> are messed up. Uninstalling and reinstalling postfix
> doesn't help.
>
> Has anyone an idea how that could happen? I packed up the old
> (sarge) vserver guest using tar zcvf. I built a new server using
i had similar problem with rsync copy to other machines ...
now i'm using rsync with --numeric-ids
(don’t map uid/gid values by user/group name)
maybe you must use tar with --numeric-owner
(always use numbers for user/group names)
this depends on host system - if you have identical uid for postfix
on both host and guest, there is no problem, but postfix uid is
generated by installing postfix package
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