Good Morning, I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 which I upgraded from 7.10 and Postfix is the newest version downloaded with apt-get. Postfix is giving me the following error message in the mail.log mailserver postfix/tlsmgr[22168]: fatal: tls_prng_exch_open: cannot open PRNG exchange file /var/lib/postfix/prng_exch: Permission denied mailserver postfix/tlsmgr[22155]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/tlsmgr pid 22168 exit status 1 mailserver postfix/tlsmgr[22155]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/tlsmgr: bad command startup -- throttling ls -la of /var/lib shows: drw-r--r-- 2 postfix postfix 4096 2008-09-08 16:$2 postfix ls -la of /var/lib/postfix shows: -rw-r--r-- 1 postfix 127 1024 2008-09-08 16:42 prng_exch -rw-------1 ftp 127 8192 smtpd_scache.db -rw-------1 ftp 127 8192 smtp_scache.db Does anyone know what the problem might be? I have tried the comments found in one other thread on roughly the same problem. Any help would be appreciated! Thank you very much.
Also here is my main.cf from postfix, just in case someone needed to see it to give me an idea of what to fix. # See /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.dist for a commented, more complete version # Debian specific: Specifying a file name will cause the first # line of that file to be used as the name. The Debian default # is /etc/mailname. #myorigin = /etc/mailname smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Ubuntu) biff = no # appending .domain is the MUA's job. append_dot_mydomain = no # Uncomment the next line to generate "delayed mail" warnings #delay_warning_time = 4h # TLS parameters smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postix/ssl/smtpd.crt smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.key smtpd_use_tls = yes smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${queue_directory}/smtpd_scache smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${queue_directory}/smtp_scache # See /usr/share/doc/postfix/TLS_README.gz in the postfix-doc package for # information on enabling SSL in the smtp client. default_process_limit = 15 message_size_limit = 100000000 myhostname = mailserver.maplevalefarms.com alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases myorigin = /etc/mailname #mydestination = relayhost = [mail.alltel.net] smtp_sasl_auth_enable = no smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 mailbox_command = procmail -a "$EXTENSION" mailbox_size_limit = 1000000000 recipient_delimiter = + inet_interfaces = all inet_protocols = all smtpd_sasl_local_domain = smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated, permit_mynetworks, reject_unauth_destination smtpd_tls_auth_only = no smtp_use_tls = yes smtp_tls_note_starttls_offer = yes smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/postfix/ssl/cacert.pem smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1 smtpd_tls_received_header = yes smtpd_tls_session_cache_timeout = 3600s tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom virtual_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtusertable mydestination = /etc/postfix/local-host-names
Ok, I fixed that problem, chmod 700 to all files and the folder /var/lib/postfix then set owners and groups both to postfix user for folder and files. Now another problem, phew this is getting annoying.... Sep 10 11:24:32 mailserver postfix/smtpd[7092]: connect from localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1] Sep 10 11:24:32 mailserver postfix/smtpd[7092]: warning: SASL authentication failure: cannot connect to saslauthd server: Permission denied Sep 10 11:24:32 mailserver postfix/smtpd[7092]: warning: localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1]: SASL LOGIN authentication failed: generic failure Sep 10 11:24:32 mailserver postfix/smtpd[7092]: disconnect from localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1]
Wow, I'm an idiot, I fixed that too. Reran adduser postfix sasl and it fixed it..... Now I'm getting Sep 10 11:27:00 mailserver postfix/postdrop[7438]: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop/135065.7438: Permission denied Sep 10 11:27:00 mailserver postfix/postdrop[7446]: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop/191682.7446: Permission denied Sep 10 11:27:10 mailserver postfix/postdrop[7438]: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop/137135.7438: Permission denied Sep 10 11:27:10 mailserver postfix/postdrop[7446]: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop/193783.7446: Permission denied Sep 10 11:27:20 mailserver postfix/postdrop[7438]: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop/139263.7438: Permission denied Sep 10 11:27:20 mailserver postfix/postdrop[7446]: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop/195896.7446: Permission denied Sep 10 11:27:30 mailserver postfix/postdrop[7438]: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop/142408.7438: Permission denied Sep 10 11:27:30 mailserver postfix/postdrop[7446]: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop/204888.7446: Permission denied Sep 10 11:27:40 mailserver postfix/postdrop[7438]: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop/143551.7438: Permission denied Sep 10 11:27:40 mailserver postfix/postdrop[7446]: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop/206012.7446: Permission denied
I am able to send emails to users within the domain, haven't tried anyone outside of it, but they do go, but I'm still getting these error messages above. Anyone have any good ideas about them?
I chmodded 777 to /var/spool/postfix/maildrop and the ownership was set to postfixostdrop and all appears to be working. This is most likely a temporary fix, but, it works for now. If anyone knows a better work around, please let me know, and hopfully if anyone has these problems in the future, the answers are posted here.
Yes, but I'm thinking that maybe I disabled it AFTER I installed postfix, so maybe not all of the folder permissions got applied correctly during the postfix install..... Seems like that is something that someone waaaaaay above us would want to make sure doesn't happen. It's ignorant problems like this, which I may have caused, but still, just the fact that it happened. It's problems like this that push the people who don't have patience away from using linux in the first place.
