Postfix installation problem...

[Mr fix]

We have created an rpm by applying custom patch to Postfix 2.8.7, after the installation "postfix check" gives the following error.

postfix: fatal: /usr/libexec/postfix/postfix-script: No such file or directory

After reading i'm coming to conclusion that it might be a permissions issue, haven't seen any differences when cross checked between older system vs this one.

TIA.

Kumar

[Wietse Venema]

Mr fix:

> We have created an rpm by applying custom patch to Postfix 2.8.7,
> after the installation "postfix check" gives the following error.
>
> postfix: fatal: /usr/libexec/postfix/postfix-script: No such file or directory

The postfix command runs with super-user privileges. If it can't
execute postfix-script because of the above error, then:

- Either the file does not exist,

- Or the #!/path/to/program on the first line of the file specifies
a non-existent patname,

- Or you need to fix the SELINUX or APPARMOR etc. "security"
configuration.

Wietse

[Mr fix]

Thanks a ton for the reply.

I have compared the working version(2.4.6) box vs this one 2.8.7 here are the results.

1. postfix-script files exist at same locations.

[root@box-1 /]# find / -name postfix-script
/etc/postfix.one/postfix-script
/etc/postfix.two/postfix-script

[root@box-2 /]# find / -name postfix-script
/etc/postfix.one/postfix-script
/etc/postfix.two/postfix-script

2. Doing this as root so i think its safe to conclude this may not be a permissions issue, am i ok ???

3. SELINUX is disabled.

4. Verified the postfix-script file first line, it is #!/bin/sh.

5. Verified for "whereis postfix", does this makes any difference ?

Box1
[root@box-1 ~]# whereis postfix
postfix: /usr/sbin/postfix /usr/sbin/postfix.one /usr/sbin/postfix.two /etc/postfix /etc/postfix.one /etc/postfix.two /usr/libexec/postfix

Box2

[root@box-2 /]# whereis postfix
postfix: /usr/sbin/postfix.two /usr/sbin/postfix /usr/sbin/postfix.one /etc/postfix.two /etc/postfix /etc/postfix.one /usr/libexec/postfix

Thanks,
Kumar
________________________________
From: Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org>
To: Postfix users <postfi...@postfix.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 7, 2012 7:32 PM
Subject: Re: Postfix installation problem...

[Viktor Dukhovni]

On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 08:47:27AM -0800, Mr fix wrote:

> I have compared the working version(2.4.6) box vs this one 2.8.7
> here are the results.
>
> 1. postfix-script files exist at same locations.
>
> [root@box-1 /]# find / -name postfix-script
> /etc/postfix.one/postfix-script
> /etc/postfix.two/postfix-script

There's your problem. The postfix-script, postfix-files and related
files are as of Postfix 2.6 expected to be in /usr/libexec/postfix
(really $daemon_directory).

Your Postfix installation is broken.

--
Viktor.

[Mr fix]

Just tried that brute force and worked.....your reference validates the issue.

These things generally happen when we jump 4 versions in one shot, thank you very much for pitching in.

We have multiple instances running so as per older way they distributed postfix-files, -script -install in different places, now, i have to see how the multiple instances functionality changed since 2.4.

Thanks,
Kumar

----- Original Message -----
From: Viktor Dukhovni <postfi...@dukhovni.org>
To: postfi...@postfix.org
Cc:
Sent: Wednesday, February 8, 2012 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: Postfix installation problem...

[Wietse Venema]

Mr fix:

> > Thanks a ton for the reply.
>

> I have compared the working version(2.4.6) box vs this one 2.8.7
> here are the results.
>
> 1. postfix-script files exist at same locations.
>
> [root@box-1 /]# find / -name postfix-script
> /etc/postfix.one/postfix-script
> /etc/postfix.two/postfix-script

Postfix 2.6 and later use /usr/libexec/postfix/postfix-script,

You may have noticed that pathname in the error message.

Wietse

[Brian Evans - Postfix List]

On 2/8/2012 12:07 PM, Mr fix wrote:
> Just tried that brute force and worked.....your reference validates the issue.
>
> These things generally happen when we jump 4 versions in one shot, thank you very much for pitching in.
>
> We have multiple instances running so as per older way they distributed postfix-files, -script -install in different places, now, i have to see how the multiple instances functionality changed since 2.4.

You will probably be interested in
http://www.postfix.org/MULTI_INSTANCE_README.html which was offered
beginning with Postfix 2.6.