> Chroot and multiple instance support are, or should be, handled properly by the Postfix init scripts.
should be. Exactly! I did the re-install with a single instance, but it was troublesome. dpkg kept throwing errors because of some post-installation modifications. The second instance effectively screwed up the usual directory structure... Guess there were some leftovers preventing the installation script from working properly. Because I didn't have those problems when I installed it the first time... ricardus Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > On 8/10/2011 12:10 AM, ricardus1867 wrote: > >> By trying to add a second postfix instance (something seems to have went >> terribly wrong), I managed to screw up my postfix. Badly. Nothing would >> work >> anymore. So I tried the scorched earth approach (purge, then install). >> >> That worked more or less, except for the fact that /var/spool/postfix/etc >> was empty. So one of the problems (DNS lookups stopped working) >> persisted. >> >> I copied a couple of files inside that directory that I remembered being >> there (hosts, localtime, nsswitch.conf, resolv.conf, services and the ssl >> certs), but the error either is elsewhere or I forgot to copy a file... >> >> I tried no setting "chroot" to "no" for the smtp daemon. That fixes the >> problem. But how can I make DNS lookups work again without loosing the >> chroot? > > Chroot and multiple instance support are, or should be, handled properly > by the Postfix init scripts. If you are using a distro Postfix package, > these scripts are written and maintained by distro staff. > > For a thorough description of the cause of this problem, and fixes, it > is worth the time to read this: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560682 > > Even if you're using something other than Debian, the knowledge gained > from this doc is valuable in understanding the issue. > > -- > Stan > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Problem-with-DNS-lookup-when-chrooted-tp32231386p32234411.html Sent from the Postfix mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
