I think one of the issues here is that the centos upstream repos have not been updated to the latest code yet. That being said, I was wondering if anyone had written any installation notes for installing postfix 3.x from source on centos or red hat?
Get BlueMail for Android On Jan 2, 2021, 3:35 PM, at 3:35 PM, Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote: >CRAIG WILSON: >> Hi, >> I have recently "yum upgrade" my Centos Linux 7 Server. I had a fully >working Postfix 2.10 system prior to that. >> My Postfix service won't start. This is the error: >> Jan 01 20:36:02 pbx.myrevtel.com<http://pbx.myrevtel.com/>systemd[1]: >Starting Postfix Mail Transport Agent... >> Jan 01 20:36:02 >pbx.myrevtel.com<http://pbx.myrevtel.com/>aliasesdb[28441]: >/usr/sbin/postconf: warning: /etc/postfix/main.cf: unused parameter: >compatibility_level=2 >> Jan 01 20:36:02 >pbx.myrevtel.com<http://pbx.myrevtel.com/>aliasesdb[28441]: >/usr/sbin/postconf: warning: /etc/postfix/main.cf: unused parameter: >meta_directory=/etc/postfix >> Jan 01 20:36:02 >pbx.myrevtel.com<http://pbx.myrevtel.com/>aliasesdb[28441]: >/usr/sbin/postconf: warning: /etc/postfix/main.cf: unused parameter: >shlib_directory=no >> Jan 01 20:36:02 >pbx.myrevtel.com<http://pbx.myrevtel.com/>postfix[28445]: >/usr/lib/postfix/postfix-script: line 74: cd: HOME not set >> It appears related to the shlib_directory within the above >postfix-script file. >> However, apparently the shlib_directory variable is only available in >version 3.0+ >> Could anyone advise please. > >Why did you "upgrade" from Postfix3 to Postfix2? > >You are now running Postfix2 binaries (no suppport for shlib_directory >or meta_directory) with your Postfix3 configuration (that specifies >shlib_directory and shlib_directory). > >> Just to add: If I execute postconf -d | grep shlib_directory - I >> get shlib_directory = no on the previous version. > >That was a Postfix3 system, which supports shlib_directory and >meta_directory. > >> However, on my upgraded version the shlib_directory = no is not >> returned from the postconf -d command. > >Because that is Postfix2, which does not support shlib_directory >or meta_directory. > > Wietse
