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postsuper: fatal: scan_dir_push: open directory defer: Permission denied
Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2021 8:10 pm
by mister_v
I got a problem with postfix,
got the following message in /var/log/mail.err
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postsuper: fatal: scan_dir_push: open directory defer: Permission denied
I don't know what it is.
Re: postsuper: fatal: scan_dir_push: open directory defer: Permission denied
Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2021 8:25 pm
by chris
It looks like postfix does not have access to one or more directories.
Somehow the rights must have been changed.
You can try:
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chown -R postfix /var/spool/postfix
or
Re: postsuper: fatal: scan_dir_push: open directory defer: Permission denied
Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2021 8:41 pm
by mister_v
Tries to change the owner
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chown -R postfix /var/spool/postfix
did not solve the problem.
the system is not sending mails either.
Re: postsuper: fatal: scan_dir_push: open directory defer: Permission denied
Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2021 8:53 pm
by chris
If it can't write the mails, it can't process the mail to send them.
an extreme solution is to delete the dir
and do a reinstall
it will recreate the dir with the correct file-settings.