On 5 Sep 2001, Simon J Mudd wrote:

> o1okh.refer.org (LinuxKH) writes:
>
> > I have just got install the 'postfix-20010202-4.rpm' from the PowerTools
> > of RH Seawolf.
>
> RedHat seem to be providing their own postfix rpms, but they don't
> keep them up to date, which is a shame.

And they're removed entirely in upcoming 7.2, which is more of a shame

> > ... postfix/smtp[1509]: fatal unkwon service: smtp/tcp
>
> This probably means that smtp is running in a chroot environment and that
> /var/spool/postfix/etc/services does not exist or has the wrong permissions.
>
> > ... postfix/qmgr[1499]: warning: end of input while receiving string data
> > from service private/smtp
> > ... postfix/qmgr[1499]: warning: private/smtp: malformed response
> > ... postfix/master[1497]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/smtp pid 1509 exit
> > status 1
> > ... postfix/master[1497]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/smtp: bad command
> > startup -- throthling
>
> Something sounds very wrong. What does rpm -V postfix say?

Most likely, these two errors come from a bug in RH which I've seen two or
three times now in which installing postfix leaves you with most of postfix
installed, plus /usr/sbin/sendmail installed from the sendmail RPM rather
than the sendmail compatibility wrapper from the postfix RPM.

rpm -e --nodeps postfix sendmail ; rpm -Uvh /path/to/postfix.rpm

will fix the problem if that's the case

later,
chris

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Chris Ricker                                               kaboomgatech.edu
                                                          chrisgurulabs.com
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