Hello,<br><br>I just installed the most current version of the Postfix port (2.3.8) under MacPorts 1.4.0 and 1.4.3 with the ldap, pcre, sasl and tls variants:<br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
$ port installed postfix<br>
The following ports are currently installed:<br>
&nbsp; postfix @2.3.8_0+ldap+pcre+sasl+tls (active)<br></blockquote><br>on two different machines (an Intel Mac and a PowerPC Mac respectively both running 10.4.9). I&#39;ve disabled Apple&#39;s postfix (per the recommendation in the comments generated by MacPorts after successfully installing). I also bought yesterday the excellent book on Postfix, &quot;
<span style="font-weight: bold;">The Book of Postfix</span>&quot; and have used it to create a very simple single domain configuration (baby steps).<br><br>When I start postfix, it certainly runs persistently but I have not yet tried to send mail yet, because the following warnings are dumped out on to the command line after starting it:
<br><br><blockquote># postfix start<br><br>/opt/local/etc/postfix/postfix-script: line 200: ls: command not found<br>postfix/postfix-script: warning: not owned by root: /opt/local/libexec/postfix<br>/opt/local/etc/postfix/postfix-script: line 200: ls: command not found
<br>postfix/postfix-script: warning: not owned by root: /opt/local/etc/postfix<br>/opt/local/etc/postfix/postfix-script: line 200: ls: command not found<br>postfix/postfix-script: warning: not owned by root: /opt/local/var/spool/postfix
<br>/opt/local/etc/postfix/postfix-script: line 1: ls: command not found<br>usage: find [-H | -L | -P] [-EXdsx] [-f file] [file ...] [expression]<br>/opt/local/etc/postfix/postfix-script: line 1: ls: command not found<br>
postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system<br></blockquote>The&nbsp; warnings about the command &quot;ls&quot; not being found in the postfix-script on lines 200 and line 1 is quite strange (when I vi postfix-script line 1 is not attempting to use the ls command but line 200 is). This is what line 200 looks like calling ls, enclosed in the do and done:
<br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">do<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ls -lLd $dir | (grep &quot; root &quot; &gt;/dev/null ||<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $WARN not owned by root: $dir)
<br>done<br></blockquote><br>This is strange because my bash profile PATH is just fine (I give /opt/local the priority and then tack on $PATH after that, and when I try independently on the command line, the ls command works just fine).
<br><br>As for the complain about the ownership, I did notice that the directory:<br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">/opt/local/var/spool/postfix
<br></blockquote><br>is owned by root:admin but most of the contents in said directory are owned by postfix:admin and postfix:postdrop<br><br>Are the above warnings normal? Can they be safely ignored? Or should I take some sort of rectifying action? It bothers me to see warnings (I would love for it to just run cleanly).
<br><br>Thanks a ton anyone,<br><br>T.M.<br><br>P.S. The warnings above are the exact same on the Intel and the PowerPC machine aforementioned.<br><br><br><br><br><br>