Mon, 21 Apr 2025 07:20:05 -0400 Charles Dennett <cdenn...@gmail.com> kirjoitti:
> On 4/21/25 2:12 AM, jarmo wrote: > > Stopped working after upgrade fm f41 to f42?? As > > well postfix service didn't start after upgrade??? > > Had to enable postfix service first and start it.. > > Missing "Mail/Mailx" in f42??? > > These are my first impressions after upgrade. Where > > to start look, how to get Logwatch working and repoting? > > > > Jarmo > > Sounds like the same thing that happened to me. Postfix issue is > known and there is a bug report at: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2360491 > > Logwatch works for me but it runs as a cron job out of > /etc/cron.daily. Cron wants to use sendmail to send its output but if > you're using postfix, there can be an issue. Part of Fedora 42 is to > eliminate /usr/sbin in favor of /usr/bin. /usr/sbin is now full of > symlinks. There should be one in there to use postfix instead of > sendmail. I believe that got messed up. > > Here is something I wrote the other day to this list: > > ------------------------- > Upgraded my home server/desktop machine yesterday and all seemed ok. > When I checked this morning I discovered that output from overnight > cron jobs had gone to the journal log rather than being emailed to > me. Also logwatch had failed to run. > > I quickly checked logwatch first by manually running the logwatch > service and it complained that /usr/sbin/sendmail did not exist. In > fact, sendmail was not even installed. The system uses postfix. > Honestly, I don't recall if it was installed previously or not. I > got new hardware last summer and did a fresh install of Fedora 39 > then and upgraded to 40, 41 and now 42. > > In the following -> indicates a symlink. > > Checking my Fedora 41 backups, I see the following chain > > /usr/sbin/sendmail -> /etc/alternatives/mta -> > /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix (which is an executable file) > > I do not know what package owns /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix unless > someone can tell me how to tell rpm to use a different rpm database > than the default one. > > Under Fedora 42/ there was no /usr/sbin/sendmail. However, there was > a /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix that was a symlink to > /usr/bin/sendmail.postfix. > > I then installed sendmail. I tested logwatch again and it failed > with the same error about a missing /usr/sbin/sendmail. I > uninstalledd sendmail. This time logwatch worked because > /usr/sbin/sendmail existed. The removal of sendmail left behind the > following chain of symlinks: > > /usr/sbin/sendmail -> /etc/alternatives/mta -> > /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix -> /usr/bin/sendmail.postfix > > Apparently, removing sendmail left behind /usr/sbin/sendmail pointing > to (eventually) /usr/bin/sendmail.postfix. /usr/bin/sendmail.postfix > is owned by the postfix package. /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix is not > owned by any package. Probably created by the install/remove script > for sendmail. > > After all this in order to get cron to email output I just had to > restart the crond service so it could see that /usr/sbin/sendmail now > existed. > > -------------------- > > In summary, do the following: > > sudo dnf install sendmail > sudo dnf remove sendmail > sudo systemctl restart crond > > Hope this helps. > > Charlie > Got working. All what did, installed s-nail. That made necessary symlink /usr/bin /usr/sbin.. I just can't figure, why have to distroy working system by "trying to invent" wheel again. Belive me, IT IS ROUND. I don't think or speak nerd, but some times feel used, working way is not the best. There must be something badly wrong, because it is working :) Jarmo -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
