This warning message appeared in the daily mail report two days ago:
Warnings
--------
postfix-script (total: 5)
3 not owned by root: /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.10-20120422.2z/conf/ma...
2 not owned by root: /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.10-20120422.2z/conf/ta...
/var/log/mail.log showed:
May 12 11:11:27 mail postfix/postfix-script[2798]: warning: not owned by root: /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.10-20120422.2z/conf/main.cf
May 12 11:11:27 mail postfix/postfix-script[2802]: warning: not owned by root: /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.10-20120422.2z/conf/master.cf
May 12 11:11:27 mail postfix/postfix-script[2804]: warning: not owned by root: /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.10-20120422.2z/conf/master.cf.in
May 12 11:11:27 mail postfix/postfix-script[2806]: warning: not owned by root: /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.10-20120422.2z/conf/tag_as_foreign.re
May 12 11:11:27 mail postfix/postfix-script[2809]: warning: not owned by root: /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.10-20120422.2z/conf/tag_as_originating.re
The server was running Zimbra 8.0.0_GA.
Yesterday I upgraded to Zimbra 8.0.3_GA_5664 (build 20130305090204). Last night's report still shows this:
Warnings
--------
postfix-script (total: 10)
6 not owned by root: /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.10-20120422.2z/conf/ma...
4 not owned by root: /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.10-20120422.2z/conf/ta...
/var/log/mail.log still shows:
May 13 07:29:15 mail /postfix-script[2752]: warning: not owned by root: /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.10-20121007.2z/conf/main.cf
May 13 07:29:15 mail /postfix-script[2753]: warning: not owned by root: /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.10-20121007.2z/conf/master.cf
May 13 07:29:15 mail /postfix-script[2754]: warning: not owned by root: /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.10-20121007.2z/conf/master.cf.in
May 13 07:29:15 mail /postfix-script[2755]: warning: not owned by root: /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.10-20121007.2z/conf/tag_as_foreign.re
May 13 07:29:15 mail /postfix-script[2756]: warning: not owned by root: /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.10-20121007.2z/conf/tag_as_originating.re
File permissions in that folder look like this:
root@mail:/opt/zimbra/postfix-2.10-20121007.2z/conf# ls -l
total 220
-rw-r--r-- 1 root postfix 20876 Feb 8 01:45 access
-rw-r--r-- 1 root postfix 8829 Feb 8 01:45 aliases
-rw-r--r-- 1 root postfix 3547 Feb 8 01:45 bounce.cf.default
-rw-r--r-- 1 root postfix 11681 Feb 8 01:45 canonical
-rw-r--r-- 1 root postfix 9904 Feb 8 01:45 generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root postfix 21545 Feb 8 01:45 header_checks
-rw-r--r-- 1 root postfix 11942 Feb 8 01:45 LICENSE
-rw-r--r-- 1 zimbra zimbra 2947 May 13 07:28 main.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root postfix 32659 Feb 8 01:45 main.cf.default
-rw-r--r-- 1 root postfix 3305 Feb 8 01:45 makedefs.out
-r--r----- 1 zimbra zimbra 7803 May 13 07:28 master.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 zimbra zimbra 8295 Mar 5 19:21 master.cf.in
-rw-r--r-- 1 root postfix 6816 Feb 8 01:45 relocated
-r--r----- 1 zimbra zimbra 42 May 13 07:28 tag_as_foreign.re
-rw-r--r-- 1 root postfix 59 Mar 5 19:21 tag_as_foreign.re.in
-r--r----- 1 zimbra zimbra 42 May 13 07:28 tag_as_originating.re
-rw-r--r-- 1 root postfix 59 Mar 5 19:21 tag_as_originating.re.in
-rw-r--r-- 1 root postfix 1629 Feb 8 01:45 TLS_LICENSE
-rw-r--r-- 1 root postfix 12549 Feb 8 01:45 transport
-rw-r--r-- 1 root postfix 12494 Feb 8 01:45 virtual
My question is: do permission changes like these happen quasi-normally or do I need to worry about this?
Would you recommend changing the permissions of those files?
Warning messages about file permissions started appearing in daily report
Warning messages about file permissions started appearing in daily report
[quote user="Chicken76"]Would you recommend changing the permissions of those files?[/QUOTE]No, you should never modify those permissions, there's nothing wrong with them and the message is just a warning.