On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 20:41:08 -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: > Sahil Tandon: > > This error was reported to me by a FreeBSD user, but I cannot reproduce > > it on any of my development machines. It occurs during build (sorry for > > line wraps): > > > > rm -f ../../conf/main.cf.default > > cp postconf ../../bin > > (echo "# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE. EDIT THE MAIN.CF FILE INSTEAD. THE"; > > echo "# TEXT HERE JUST SHOWS DEFAULT SETTINGS BUILT INTO POSTFIX."; > > echo "#"; ./postconf -d) |egrep -v '^(myhostname|mydomain|mynetworks) ' > > >../../conf/main.cf.default > > ./postconf: fatal: socket: Protocol not supported
[ .. ] > Postconf opens a socket to determine the mynetworks value (it > determines the local interfaces and their netmasks). > > I have heard about bizarre errors on FreeBSD (jail) systems where the > user-land library was out of sync with kernel-land, resulting in data > structure mis-matches and system calls returning nonsensical results. Thanks for the quick reply. -- Sahil Tandon
