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Subject: Re: Migrating to Chroot
From: Barry W Anderson (bwashori.com)
Date: Wed Sep 27 2000 - 10:32:23 CDT

On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 04:04:49PM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote:
> Yanek Korff:
> > I'm running postfix 19991231-pl08 on FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE and didn't set it up
> > chroot when I put it together, but would like to migrate to a chroot
> > environment. The documentation on chrooting postfix seems to be sparse (if
> > I'm wrong, I'd gladly be directed to some) and the FREEBSD3 file in examples
> > seems rather vague. Do I just execute those three commands and voil_, I
> > have chroot? Seems unlikely. I assume changes need to be made in master.cf
> > also. Please advise.
>
> The FREEBSD3 shell script sets up the files that are needed for
> the SMTP client and SMTP server on FreeBSD version 3. I haven't
> looked what it takes for FreeBD version 4, but it probably does
> not differ much.
>
Just to confirm, FreeBSD 4.1 as per FREEBSD3 script. (Oh and if you use
unix:passwd.byname in local_recipient_maps, be sure to copy /etc/pwd.db to
/var/spool/postfix/etc (or whatevevr the case is for you).

cheers,
Barry