Postfix warnings when starting (harmless?)

[markd at macports.org]

There is a ticket on that.  It wouldn't be hard to fix, but I'm not sure
what the effect is either (no clear explanation from reporter) and I
wonder if a fix upstream may happen at some point because I would think
this wouldn't be a problem on OS X only.  But it has persisted since 2.2 I
think.

http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/10644

Mark

"Tabitha McNerney" <tabithamc at gmail.com> on Wednesday, May 9, 2007 at 4:27
AM -0800 wrote:
>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.