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  • From: IKEDA Soji <address@concealed>
  • To: Bill Goins <address@concealed>
  • Cc: "address@concealed" <address@concealed>
  • Subject: Re: [sympa-users] Problem with getting postfix to run /home/sympa/libexec/queue
  • Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 19:36:29 +0900

Hi Bill,

> 2020/02/26 1:04、Bill Goins <address@concealed>のメール:
>
> Hi, I'm in the process of continuing my efforts to setup sympa.
> I am stuck at the point of testing the execution of queue and bouncequeue
> from the aliases file. I am getting in /var/log/maillog:
>
> Feb 25 10:06:57 listx postfix/qmgr[21419]: C1DF7DC6CC:
> from=<address@concealed>, size=501, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
> Feb 25 10:06:57 listx local[21455]: fatal: execvp
> /home/sympa/libexec/queue: Permission denied
> Feb 25 10:06:57 listx postfix/local[21454]: C1DF7DC6CC:
> to=<address@concealed>, relay=local, delay=0.12,
> delays=0.06/0.03/0/0.03, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure.
> Command output: local: fatal: execvp /home/sympa/libexec/queue: Permission
> denied )
>
> The setup is for Sympa 6.2.44 on a Centos 7 system running postfix. I am
> following the directions for a single domain.
>
> [root@listx etc]# pwd
> /home/sympa/etc
>
> [root@listx src]# grep -e mydest -e sympa /etc/postfix/main.cf
> mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost,
> listx.georgetowncollege.edu
> alias_maps = hash:/home/sympa/etc/aliases.sympa.postfix, hash:/etc/aliases
> alias_database = hash:/home/sympa/etc/aliases.sympa.postfix,
> hash:/etc/aliases
>
> [root@listx etc]# ls -tl aliases.sympa.postfix*
> -rw-r-----. 1 sympa sympa 12288 Feb 25 10:06 aliases.sympa.postfix.db
> -rw-r-----. 1 sympa sympa 590 Feb 24 20:55 aliases.sympa.postfix
>
> [root@listx etc]# cat aliases.sympa.postfix
> # Robot aliases for Sympa.
> sympa: "| /home/sympa/libexec/queue
> address@concealed"
> listmaster: "| /home/sympa/libexec/queue
> address@concealed"
> bounce: "| /home/sympa/libexec/bouncequeue
> address@concealed"
> abuse-feedback-report: "| /home/sympa/libexec/bouncequeue
> address@concealed"
> sympa-request: postmaster
> sympa-owner: postmaster
>
> [root@listx etc]# ls -l /home/sympa/libexec/queue
> /home/sympa/libexec/bouncequeue
> -rwsr-xr-x. 1 sympa sympa 20264 Aug 23 2019 /home/sympa/libexec/bouncequeue
> -rwsr-xr-x. 1 sympa sympa 21112 Aug 23 2019 /home/sympa/libexec/queue
>
> Mail to sympa-owner passes through ok and comes back to me.
> Can anyone tell me what I've done wrong or forgotten?
>
> Somewhere, in the back of my mind and possibly a memory about sendmail,
> I think I need to tell postfix that queue is a permitted program
>

By any chance haven’t you disabled SELinux? It‘s a pitfall many people have
fallen into.

Regards,

— Soji


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