Problem with Postfix upgrade

[Paul Schmehl]

--On Thursday, July 21, 2005 14:54:18 -0400 Vivek Khera <vivek at khera.org> 
wrote:

>
> On Jul 19, 2005, at 7:19 PM, Danny Pansters wrote:
>
> The problem only manifests itself when gnu getopt is installed on  your
> system such that postfix links to it instead of the system  getopt
> routines.  No idea the fix as I don't have gnu getopt  installed on my
> systems.  Feel free to figure it out and submit a  patch to the port.
>
That's not true.  I'm running FSBD 4.9 SECURITY, and I just upgraded the 
postfix port.  I ran into the pipe problem, googled, found your and 
Weitse's posts about gnugetopt and uninstalled it.   Then I reinstalled 
postfix, but the problem persisted.  (The server could receive and send 
mail, but it couldn't deliver locally because pipe was screwed up.)

I finally uninstalled postfix and reinstalled *without* selecting the SPF 
option, and the server worked fine.  I then *reinstalled* libgnugetopt, 
*uninstalled* postfix and reinstalled it, and it still worked fine.  I then 
did the same thing again, but this time I selected SPF, and the problem 
reappeared.  I did it one more time, this time did *not* select SPF, and 
the problem was gone.

So the problem appears to be in SPF, not in the presence of gnugetopt.  At 
least in my case.

If you want me to do some testing, I can.

Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/