Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 22:19:08 +0200 From: VeeJay <maanjee@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, maanjee@gmail.com Subject: parameter setgid_group: unknown group name: postdrop Message-ID: <2cd0a0da0709131319o134d09f7pd4587533202c16d5@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello there Could anyone help me? I have installed Postfix on my freebsd 6.2 box but still not able to make it work after spending whole day and night.... I have added a group with name "postdrop" but when I try to send a mail, I get this error logged in maillog: #pw groupadd postfix #pw useradd postfix -c "Postfix SMTP Server" -d /dev/null -g postfix -s /sbin/nologin *#pw groupadd postdrop * # tail /var/log/maillog *Sep 13 20:54:35 veejay postfix/sendmail[1315]: fatal: file /usr/local/etc/postfix/main.cf: parameter setgid_group: unknown group name: postdrop* #ll /etc/group shows *-rw-r----- 1 root wheel 582 Sep 13 19:13 /etc/group* Is there pemission problem? I have run set-permissions command too but still no luck! :( *#/usr/local/sbin/postfix set-permissions * why it is not able to find the group in the /etc/group? Any help will be really apprecaited! -- Thanks! BR / vj
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