Quoting Ira Abramov, from the post of Tue, 02 Nov: > > the howto), but now I have postfix refusing to connect to the database. > I'm close to open a new thread on that since I feel like I exhausted > everything Google could find me.
Motherfrakker! This took two important hours and here's the solution: postfix kept complaining the socket was not there but it is. finally I saw that one example listed the map setting in main.cf thus: virtual_alias_maps = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql_virtual_alias_maps.cf rather than: virtual_alias_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql_virtual_alias_maps.cf As most of the faqs do. I did grep chroot /etc/postfix/* and discovered that master.cf indeed defaults all the services to chroots (not a bad idea at all) but not the proxymap. indeed if you look at the postfix processes in /proc you will see that most interesting bits do run chrooted. the solution was not to move the socket into the chroot, but instead to use the "proxy:" to get to it. methinks this and other bits of the process mean the howto needs a serious update. If only I had the time :-) -- The gift that keeps on giving Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
