Michael Leone on Wed, 6 Nov 2002 09:35:16 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] postfix error


gabriel rosenkoetter said:
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 08:48:20AM -0500, Keith Bentrup wrote:
>> friend, i cp'd /etc/passwd to /var/spool/postfix/etc and reloaded
>> postfix ... that worked, but it also means that postfix was getting
>> the list of current users from somewhere else, and i don't know
>> why that file wasn't updated using useradd ... if anyone knows, i
>> would appreciate the info so i can track down this problem more :)
>
> You've got Postfix in a chroot(2) environment.

Which you can change to non-chroot, by putting an "n" in the "chroot"
column of /etc/postfix/master.cf, and reloading postfix. Much easier to
run this way, especially if you get into things like TLS/SMTP AUTH, etc.


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