On 5 Sep 2001, Simon J Mudd wrote:

> tdiehlrogueind.com (Tom Diehl) writes:
>
> > 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.
> >
> > In the next release of redhat linux (they are running beta tests now) they
> > have dropped all official support for postfix.
>
> I tried to get them to use my rpms, or to work with them, but it didn't
> seem to work. Also incoming.redhat.com didn't seem capable of recognising
> rpm v4 versions of the package I was uploading so they didn't appear in
> contrib.redhat.com (this may have been fixed now?).
>
> That's why I've tried to keep my packages up to date, flexible and
> distribution neutral (although rpm specific) as possible. It's a shame
> it hasn't been possible to improve the situation of multiple postfix
> rpms available with the maintenance that this requires. Improvements in
> one package aren't shared by others.
>
> > > It might help if you try my latest ones which shouldn't give you the
> > > errors you are getting. See http://www.pobox.com/~sjmudd/postfix
> > >
> > > > ... 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.
> >
> > Last time I looked they had this linked to /etc/services.
>
> Do you mean that /var/spool/postfix/etc/services is linked to /etc/services?
> Is this possible and/or advisable? I guess a hardlink is possible but
> maybe not advisable, and wouldn't work across different filesystems
> I don't think a soft link would work.

Yes that is what I mean and it does not work. Postfix detects is and barfs
as it should. IIRC the error was similar to what the original poster got.
also IIRC there were other files like resolv.conf also linked. It kinda
defeats the whole purpose of chroot as best as I can tell. They
may have fixed it later. When I saw the above I switched to your rpm
and never looked back. :-)

> > My experience has been Simon's postfix rpms work very well and redhat's
> > are broken.
> >
> > Thanks, Simon.
>
> Wietse's software is good, I just do my best packaging it and am aware
> that for a large number of people packaged software is more
> convenient.

Agreed, and Thanks Wietse!! :-)

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