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Disk Utility Fix Permissions & CommuniGate Pro

07 May 2003

If you use Apple’s Disk Utility application to Repair Permissions on your Mac OS X system AND you have CommuniGate Pro installed, you’ll end up messing up CGPro’s files such that the following won’t work:

echo "Hello" | mail -s "Hi There" [email protected]

The affected files from the Disk Utility report are:

Group differs on ./private/etc/mail/submit.cf,
    should be 7, group is 0
Owner and group corrected on ./private/etc/mail/submit.cf
Permissions corrected on ./private/etc/mail/submit.cf
Group differs on ./usr/bin/mail, should be 0, group is 6
Permissions differ on ./usr/bin/mail,
    should be -r-xr-xr-x , they are -r-xr-sr-x
Owner and group corrected on ./usr/bin/mail
Permissions corrected on ./usr/bin/mail

To fix things, do:

sudo chown root:wheel /private/etc/mail/submit.cf
sudo chown root:mail /usr/sbin/CommuniGatePro/mail
sudo chmod 2555 /usr/sbin/CommuniGatePro/mail
sudo chown root:mail /usr/sbin/CommuniGatePro/sendmail
sudo chmod 2555 /usr/sbin/CommuniGatePro/sendmail

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