This is a different way of looking at the problem I am chasing under previous post
ine the linked post I stated some of my conclusions but they are my conclusions not far
this SEEMS to point at
repeats every five minutes. BUT my
crontab
is this
the
cron.d
is empty except for the
AT
whose content is
the following error repeats every 10 minutes
permission to the
postfix
postfix/sendmail[62616]: fatal: chdir /var/spool/postfix: Permission denied
are obscenely open even for me
when I list ocurances of that error I get
That leaves the recurring
my
mailer.conf
remains
which after reading this. https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/newaliases-1-not-doing-anything.90230/
this suggest that the correct
mailer.conf.
is suppose to be
Could this be my "root" cause ?
ine the linked post I stated some of my conclusions but they are my conclusions not far
this SEEMS to point at
CRON
repeats every five minutes. BUT my
crontab
is this
Code:
# /etc/crontab - root's crontab for FreeBSD
SHELL=/bin/tcsh
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin
#minute hour mday month wday who command
# Save some entropy so that /dev/random can re-seed on boot.
# Rotate log files every hour, if necessary.
# Perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance.
# Adjust the time zone if the CMOS clock keeps local time, as opposed to
# UTC time. See adjkerntz(8) for details.the
cron.d
is empty except for the
AT
whose content is
Code:
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
# See crontab(5) for field format.the following error repeats every 10 minutes
permission to the
postfix
postfix/sendmail[62616]: fatal: chdir /var/spool/postfix: Permission denied
are obscenely open even for me
when I list ocurances of that error I get
Code:
Sep 15 00:00:44 triggerfish postfix/sendmail[53441]: fatal: chdir /var/spool/postfix: Permission denied
Sep 15 00:06:15 triggerfish postfix/sendmail[53562]: fatal: chdir /var/spool/postfix: Permission denied
Sep 15 00:16:15 triggerfish postfix/sendmail[53728]: fatal: chdir /var/spool/postfix: Permission denied
Sep 15 00:36:15 triggerfish postfix/sendmail[54047]: fatal: chdir /var/spool/postfix: Permission denied
Sep 15 00:41:15 triggerfish postfix/sendmail[54123]: fatal: chdir /var/spool/postfix: Permission denied
Sep 15 01:16:15 triggerfish postfix/sendmail[54672]: fatal: chdir /var/spool/postfix: Permission denied
Sep 15 02:26:16 triggerfish postfix/sendmail[55756]: fatal: chdir /var/spool/postfix: Permission denied
Sep 15 03:36:16 triggerfish postfix/sendmail[56741]: fatal: chdir /var/spool/postfix: Permission denied
Sep 15 04:46:16 triggerfish postfix/sendmail[57683]: fatal: chdir /var/spool/postfix: Permission denied
Sep 15 05:56:17 triggerfish postfix/sendmail[58668]: fatal: chdir /var/spool/postfix: Permission denied
Sep 15 07:06:17 triggerfish postfix/sendmail[60204]: fatal: chdir /var/spool/postfix: Permission denied
Sep 15 08:16:18 triggerfish postfix/sendmail[61191]: fatal: chdir /var/spool/postfix: Permission denied
Sep 15 09:26:18 triggerfish postfix/sendmail[62616]: fatal: chdir /var/spool/postfix: Permission denied
Sep 15 10:36:37 triggerfish postfix/sendmail[63857]: fatal: chdir /var/spool/postfix: Permission denied
Sep 15 11:16:43 triggerfish postfix/sendmail[64595]: fatal: chdir /var/spool/postfix: Permission denied
Sep 15 11:46:37 triggerfish postfix/sendmail[65120]: fatal: chdir /var/spool/postfix: Permission deniedThat leaves the recurring
my
mailer.conf
remains
Code:
sendmail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
mailq /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
newaliases /usr/local/sbin/sendmailwhich after reading this. https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/newaliases-1-not-doing-anything.90230/
this suggest that the correct
mailer.conf.
is suppose to be
Code:
Code:
# cat /etc/mail/mailer.conf
#
# mailer.conf for use with dma(8)
#
# If sendmail is configured, an example of mailer.conf that uses sendmail
# instead can be found in /usr/share/examples/sendmail.
sendmail /usr/libexec/dma
mailq /usr/libexec/dma
newaliases /usr/libexec/dmaCould this be my "root" cause ?