From: Wietse Venema (no email)
Date: Sun Jan 13 2002 - 16:33:42 EST
postfix-install etc. have changed much since you downloaded Postfix.
All files in a package are shipped mode 0644 on purpose. I recommend
that you chmod +x the postfix binary before running the Postfix
post-install procedure that sets all the other permissions.
The sample-xxx files MUST be installed with the configuration files.
These files are the sole reference for all parameters. People will
never be aware that the files exist when installed as documentation,
and will pester postfix-users again and again with the same questions.
You are doing the user a great disservice by withholding the
sample-xxx files from them.
There is a reason I ship the sample-xxx files in the configuration
directory. Please do not work against my efforts to make Postfix
easy to understand.
Wietse
Tuomo Soini:
> I was building postfix-snap.spec file with new installation interface
> and found out following features:
>
> 'postfix-instal installs binaries in mode 644. It should install with
> mode 755 because you can't run post-install without runnable postconf
> binary.
>
> Script 'post-install' should try to run postconf, not bin/postconf which
> doesn't exist when post-install is run.
>
> When building and installing postfix as normal user for package or
> installation elsewhere, file modes can be set but not file ownership..
> So file modes should be correct by default.
>
> post-install should only add binaries and files which are vital for
> postfix into postfix-files, Binary distributions like RPM by me or Simon
> J. Mudd won't include sample-files in config-directory. Those are stored
> in documentation-directory.
>
> Only listing files which are needed to have some special
> owner/permission should be listed in postfix-files, because now building
> binary-distribution needs too much tweaking.
>
> But other hand postfix-install is great compared to INSTALL.sh.
>
> --
> Tuomo Soini <>
> http://tis.foobar.fi/
>
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