Thanks for all who replied; especially Lawrence. I turned off chrooting and Postfix can now be reached via port 25. I need this so that the MUAs can send mail through our box. :)
I intitally wanted Postfix to run chrooted and I believe I have copied all the necessary files from /var /lib /etc to /var/spool/postfix so that I can run it chrooted. But then it won't. After I reverted back to my old master.cf (good thing I backed it up before I messed with it) and run Postfix un-chrooted, I can now telnet to port 25 (which means our MUAs can now send mails through this box.) I was encouraged that someone here (Peter) is running Postfix un-chrooted so I decided to give it a try. Thanks man. Mhac Hey Lawrence, thanks for saving my hair! On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 19:23:32 +0800, Peter Santiago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alberto A. Agawa wrote: > > You have already accessed the mailserver. the prompt means that you have > > to give the command based on the SMTP. > > Hi Alberto, I did give several commands but Postfix is not responding... HELO EHLO MAIL FROM > [snip] > Please send the output of 'postconf -v' and check your /var/log/maillog. > Your installation of Postfix is chrooted which means /etc/postfix/var/ > (default chroot path) must contain copies of a number of system files > like resolv.conf, nsswitch and etc. > > Running Postfix in chroot is no longer recommended as it makes Postfix > maintenance heavy. I'm running Postfix (2.1.5) in non-chroot mode for > quite some time already, and I don't have to worry about changes in some > system files getting picked up after restarting postfix. > > Change the 'y' value to 'n' in the 5th column so that Postfix will not > run in chroot mode, then restart (not reload) postfix. > > -- > Peter Santiago [EMAIL PROTECTED] > My website: www.psinergybbs.com > My spamtrap address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph > Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph > . > To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug > . > Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to > http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie > -- Mozilla Firefox 1 - getfirefox.com Mozilla Thunderbird 1 - mozilla.org OpenOffice.org 1 ============= http://mulingsilang.blogspot.com I'm an Open Source Enthusiast. c",) -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
