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  • From: Phil Stracchino <address@concealed>
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  • Subject: Re: [en@sympa] Postfix/Sympa problem
  • Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2026 11:37:10 -0500

On 2/4/26 10:47, Ruud Baart wrote:
as user sympa I can write in /tmp, /run/sympa,
/usr/local/sympa/var/spool/sympa

However in /usr/local/sympa/var/spool/sympa/msg is something strange:

    sympa@monk:/usr/local/sympa/var/spool/sympa/msg$ echo kk>h1
    sympa@monk:/usr/local/sympa/var/spool/sympa/msg$ ls
    bad  h1

So, ok.
    sympa@monk:/usr/local/sympa/var/spool/sympa/msg$ rm h1
    rm: cannot remove 'h1': No such file or directory

Strange.

    sympa@monk:/usr/local/sympa/var/spool/sympa/msg$ ls
    bad

file is removed.



Yeeeeaaaahhhh, that definitely looks like there's something hinky going on with your filesystem.

What type of filesystem and physical device is it? It's a bit of a funky path.


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