Postfix warnings when starting (harmless?)

[Tabitha McNerney]

Hello,

I just installed the most current version of the Postfix port (2.3.8) under
MacPorts 1.4.0 and 1.4.3 with the ldap, pcre, sasl and tls variants:

$ port installed postfix
> The following ports are currently installed:
>   postfix @2.3.8_0+ldap+pcre+sasl+tls (active)
>

on two different machines (an Intel Mac and a PowerPC Mac respectively both
running 10.4.9). I've disabled Apple's postfix (per the recommendation in
the comments generated by MacPorts after successfully installing). I also
bought yesterday the excellent book on Postfix, "The Book of Postfix" and
have used it to create a very simple single domain configuration (baby
steps).

When I start postfix, it certainly runs persistently but I have not yet
tried to send mail yet, because the following warnings are dumped out on to
the command line after starting it:

# postfix start

/opt/local/etc/postfix/postfix-script: line 200: ls: command not found
postfix/postfix-script: warning: not owned by root:
/opt/local/libexec/postfix
/opt/local/etc/postfix/postfix-script: line 200: ls: command not found
postfix/postfix-script: warning: not owned by root: /opt/local/etc/postfix
/opt/local/etc/postfix/postfix-script: line 200: ls: command not found
postfix/postfix-script: warning: not owned by root:
/opt/local/var/spool/postfix
/opt/local/etc/postfix/postfix-script: line 1: ls: command not found
usage: find [-H | -L | -P] [-EXdsx] [-f file] [file ...] [expression]
/opt/local/etc/postfix/postfix-script: line 1: ls: command not found
postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system

The  warnings about the command "ls" not being found in the postfix-script
on lines 200 and line 1 is quite strange (when I vi postfix-script line 1 is
not attempting to use the ls command but line 200 is). This is what line 200
looks like calling ls, enclosed in the do and done:

do
>         ls -lLd $dir | (grep " root " >/dev/null ||
>             $WARN not owned by root: $dir)
> done
>

This is strange because my bash profile PATH is just fine (I give /opt/local
the priority and then tack on $PATH after that, and when I try independently
on the command line, the ls command works just fine).

As for the complain about the ownership, I did notice that the directory:

/opt/local/var/spool/postfix
>

is owned by root:admin but most of the contents in said directory are owned
by postfix:admin and postfix:postdrop

Are the above warnings normal? Can they be safely ignored? Or should I take
some sort of rectifying action? It bothers me to see warnings (I would love
for it to just run cleanly).

Thanks a ton anyone,

T.M.

P.S. The warnings above are the exact same on the Intel and the PowerPC
machine aforementioned.
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