Nevermind - solved that by # sudo chown root.root sasl_passwd (sorry, too tired in the evening) On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Alexander Farber <alexander.farber@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm trying to configure mail forwarding through Gmail > on CentOS 6 with postfix, following the blog > http://carlton.oriley.net/blog/?p=31 > and I think the blog has missed the step: > > # postmap /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd > > - as I've seen in the /var/log/maillog: > > postfix/smtp[1926]: fatal: open database /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd.db: > No such file or directory > postfix/master[1831]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/smtp pid > 1926 exit status 1 > postfix/master[1831]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/smtp: bad command > startup -- throttling > > But when I try to run postmap, I get > > postmap: fatal: open database /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd.db: Permission denied > > even though the postfix service is stopped, > the SELinux is permissive and the file is writable: > > [root@preferans postfix]# ll > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 20K Jun 25 14:50 access > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 12K Jun 25 14:50 canonical > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 9.7K Jun 25 14:50 generic > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 18K Jun 25 14:50 header_checks > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 27K Oct 4 20:24 main.cf > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 27K Oct 4 20:23 main.cf.OLD > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 5.0K Jun 25 14:50 master.cf > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 6.7K Jun 25 14:50 relocated > -rw-r--r--. 1 postfix root 113 Oct 4 20:25 sasl_passwd > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 13K Jun 25 14:50 transport > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 13K Jun 25 14:50 virtual > > Has anybody fought this problem already? > > Thank you > Alex > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos