postfix launch at system startup

Thu Nov 18 06:31:55 PST 2004

On Thursday, 18 November 2004 at  8:36:00 -0500, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
> On 11/17/04 09:47 PM, Andrew L. Gould sat at the `puter and typed:
> > On Wednesday 17 November 2004 08:36 pm, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
> > > Hey all.  I'm having a little trouble with postfix launch at startup
> > > in 5.3.
> > >
> > > At install, I specified postfix as the mta, and had it configured in
> > > /etc/mail/mailer.conf.  The /stand/sysinstall shell also added the
> > > following to /etc/rc.conf:
> > >
> > > sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO"
> > > sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"
> > > sendmail_submit_enable="NO"
> > > sendmail_flags="-bd"
> > > sendmail_enable="YES"
> > 
> > This seems wrong, particularly the last line. Try:
> > 
> > sendmail_enable="NONE"
> > 
> > >
> > > I figured that would be the end of it.
> > >
> > > I can't find anything to indicate what should be done to make it
> > > start up at system boot.  Once the system is up, I simply execute
> > >
> > > postfix start
> > >
> > > as root and everything works as planned, but I wonder if I'm missing
> > > something?
> > >
> > > Anyone else have this problem?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance
> > > Lou
> > 
> > Follow the instructions at the link below:
> > 
> > http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~ranga/notes/freebsd_postfix.html
> > 
> > Best of luck,
> 
> Problem is this is for an "active" replacement - one where sendmail is
> already in place.  I did an installation replacement, where postfix
> was specified as the primary MTA during system install.
>
So did I
 
> And it just occurred to me that the install replacement might not
> disable building sendmail and installing it during a buildworld /
> installworld.
>
When I later went through a cvsup/portupgrade sequence, I had to
answer "YES" to the question 
"Would you like to activate Postfix in /etc/mail/mailer.conf [n]?"
If you answer "No" you will revert to sendmail.
 Kjekk

> I'll follow the directions there.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Lou
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> On 11/17/04 09:47 PM, Andrew L. Gould sat at the `puter and typed:
> > On Wednesday 17 November 2004 08:36 pm, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
> > > Hey all.  I'm having a little trouble with postfix launch at startup
> > > in 5.3.
> > >
> > > At install, I specified postfix as the mta, and had it configured in
> > > /etc/mail/mailer.conf.  The /stand/sysinstall shell also added the
> > > following to /etc/rc.conf:
> > >
> > > sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO"
> > > sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"
> > > sendmail_submit_enable="NO"
> > > sendmail_flags="-bd"
> > > sendmail_enable="YES"
> > 
> > This seems wrong, particularly the last line. Try:
> > 
> > sendmail_enable="NONE"
> > 
> > >
> > > I figured that would be the end of it.
> > >
> > > I can't find anything to indicate what should be done to make it
> > > start up at system boot.  Once the system is up, I simply execute
> > >
> > > postfix start
> > >
> > > as root and everything works as planned, but I wonder if I'm missing
> > > something?
> > >
> > > Anyone else have this problem?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance
> > > Lou
> > 
> > Follow the instructions at the link below:
> > 
> > http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~ranga/notes/freebsd_postfix.html
> > 
> > Best of luck,
> 
> Problem is this is for an "active" replacement - one where sendmail is
> already in place.  I did an installation replacement, where postfix
> was specified as the primary MTA during system install.
> 
> And it just occurred to me that the install replacement might not
> disable building sendmail and installing it during a buildworld /
> installworld.
> 
> I'll follow the directions there.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Lou
> -- 
> Louis LeBlanc               FreeBSD at keyslapper.org
> Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :)
> http://www.keyslapper.org                     Ô¿Ô¬
> 
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>   A noise with dirt on it.
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