I restart my machine, and postfix stops working, so I emerge a newer version 2.0.11
and it errors out when i try to start it saying..

[wonko:/etc/postfix]# postfix start
/etc/postfix/post-install: Error: Usage: /etc/postfix/post-install [name=value] command
create-missing Create missing queue directories.
upgrade-source When installing or upgrading from source code.
upgrade-package When installing or upgrading from pre-built package.
first-install-reminder Remind of mandatory first-time configuration steps.
name=value Specify an installation parameter.
postfix/postfix-script: warning: unable to create missing queue directories
postfix/postfix-script: fatal: Postfix integrity check failed!


so i try to run post-install
but post install stays my syntax is incorrect
that being...
./post-install config_directory=/etc/postfix \
queue_directory=/var/spool/postfix \
create-missing
so i give up and start digging around in the postfix-files file in the config dir and check out all the queue directories, and they all seem to be there and under the proper ownership, permissions and such. so where in postfix check is it crapping out, why, and what do i need to do to fix it?

-Rob

IIRC what post-install is, is a tool to help you after you install with those various choices, so in your case, it looks like you wanna run:
/etc/postfix/post-install upgrade-package

And it should give you the skinny on what's going on. try the other options as well if you believe they pertain to you.

Cool

Alright, i tried /etc/postfix/post-install upgrade-package
and again, it's just returning syntax errors, so i'm thinking that something's shot in my version of postfix. Should I just upgrade to postfix 2.0.13 to see if post-install is fixed, or would it be a more localized problem, such as weird portage patches.

moving /etc/postfix and /var/spool/postfix and upgrading to 2.0.13 had no effect and it still errors out with post-install

Can you post up the actual error?

Cool

[wonko:/etc/postfix]# postfix start
/etc/postfix/post-install: Error: Usage: /etc/postfix/post-install [name=value] command
create-missing Create missing queue directories.
upgrade-source When installing or upgrading from source code.
upgrade-package When installing or upgrading from pre-built package.
first-install-reminder Remind of mandatory first-time configuration steps.
name=value Specify an installation parameter.
postfix/postfix-script: warning: unable to create missing queue directories
postfix/postfix-script: fatal: Postfix integrity check failed!

same error every time
I've come to the conclusion since i've compiled from source, and from ebuild
that the problem is something in my system, something post-install calls is fubar, i know theres some stuff really wrong on this system, i'd like to fix it, but i can't re install gentoo, that would take a month to do on this p2 440, unles i can find a way to get it to cross compile from gentoo cd on the computer in the other room, there's really no hope for a reformat and reinstall

this is the error i get during make install on the source
/bin/sh postfix-install
postfix-install: Error: Usage: postfix-install [name=value] [option]
-non-interactive Do not ask for installation parameters.
name=value Specify an installation parameter.
make: *** [install] Error 1

emerge bootstrap I believe is the command to get back to square one, if that's indeed what you want to do, however check the Gentoo forums or ask around here, I'm not completely sure as I've never done it (yet).

Cool

i'm not starting back on a bootstrap, i've only got 72 hours, this box would take about 400 hours to get back to where i am now, i don't have that much time, i must cross compile, and everything's going wrong today, my dad's sytem which i was gonna just drop a gentoo live cd into and set up to be my cross compiling bitch, is flaking out, won't accept any version of bootable nix, the rdram is registering at wrong mb values, so i need to replace them and hopefully it will load vmlinuz properly, the world is against me today you see, so i'm going to have to unlink /dev/world

When starting posdt fix, it does not start. Soo... I typed in "/etc/postfix/post-install command_directory=/some/where."

And this is what it gave me:

create-missing Create missing queue directories.
upgrade-source When installing or upgrading from source code.
upgrade-package When installing or upgrading from pre-built package.
first-install-reminder Remind of mandatory first-time configuration steps.
name=value Specify an installation parameter.


I have been searching the web for the answers... however can not find them....

Thank you!

Please, start a new thread. This one was 5 years old, and the details of this old thread are not relevant to your own. Let this one die.