No, I didn't upgrade Postfix. As the top of my thread, I "yum upgrade" my Centos Server. Postfix is 2.10. It worked previously but since yum upgrade, has failed.
Thanks! > On 2 Jan 2021, at 21:34, "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
