On 01/21/15 23:14, Rod Whitworth wrote:
For ages I have I have selected the snapshot version when installing a new copy of Postfix. Never had a problem .... until now on 5.6Working on a clean disk installed an out-of-the-box setup. Then installed Postfix snapshot. The one with no options. It didn't finish cleanly. I thought I had screwed up so wiped HD and reinstalled 5.6 Did the Postfix install as before - no joy. Made a note of text that arrived after install finished. Cleaned up again - fresh install and installed Postfix stable version. No problem. Somehow managed to lose the text I copied from the snapshot version 8-( So here is the difference between the two versions near where the error message said something about "install -d -o root -g wheel -m 755 $CONFIG_DIR/postfix-files.d" ----------------- From postfix-install in /usr/ports/mail/postfix/snapshot/files/postfix-install # Function: install the postfix configuration files from the samples do_configs() POSTFIX="${PREFIX}/sbin/postfix" if [ -d $CONFIG_DIR ]; then if [ ! -d $CONFIG_DIR/postfix-files.d ]; then install -d -o root -g wheel -m 755 $CONFIG_DIR/postfix-files.d fi for file in main.cf.proto master.cf.proto postfix-files ; do if [ ! -f $CONFIG_DIR/$file ]; then install -o root -g wheel -m 644 $SAMPLE_CONFIG_DIR/$file $CONFIG_DIR fi done =========================================================== From postfix-install in /usr/ports/mail/postfix/stable/files/postfix-install # Function: install the postfix configuration files from the samples do_configs() POSTFIX="${PREFIX}/sbin/postfix" if [ -d $CONFIG_DIR ]; then echo "" $POSTFIX upgrade-configuration echo "" echo "+---------------" echo "| The existing configuration files in $CONFIG_DIR have been preserved." echo "| You may want to compare them to the current sample files," echo "| $SAMPLE_CONFIG_DIR, and update your configuration as needed." echo "+---------------" echo "" else install -d -o root -g wheel -m 755 $CONFIG_DIR install -o root -g wheel -m 644 $SAMPLE_CONFIG_DIR/* $CONFIG_DIR echo "+---------------" echo "| Configuration files have been installed in $CONFIG_DIR." echo "| Please update these files to meet your needs." echo "+---------------" fi $POSTFIX set-permissions $POSTFIX check ================= I don't relish the idea of re-doing the install as I now have lots of other apps installed. I have supplied the above info in case it can help somebody else.
You don't have to re-do your whole installation. Just de-install the package if it is installed. rm -rf /etc/postfix and then re-install the package. Then note what the error message is. That is the most important piece of information. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
