Installing ISPConfig 3 on CentOS 6.4

[root@centos1 install]# php -q install.php


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>> Initial configuration

Operating System: Redhat or compatible, unknown version.

Following will be a few questions for primary configuration so be careful.
Default values are in [brackets] and can be accepted with <ENTER>.
Tap in "quit" (without the quotes) to stop the installer.


Select language (en,de) [en]:

Installation mode (standard,expert) [standard]:

Full qualified hostname (FQDN) of the server, eg server1.domain.tld [centos1.cmsits.com]:

MySQL server hostname [localhost]:

MySQL root username [root]:

MySQL root password []: ***********************

MySQL database to create [dbispconfig]:

MySQL charset [utf8]:

postalias: fatal: open /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases: No such file or directory
Generating a 2048 bit RSA private key


AS YOU CAN SEE >
postalias: fatal: open /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases: No such file or directory

How is this fixed. I have done step by step in every detail ???

Any help or response would be great thanks

 

I have done about 20 installs now with the setup you are describing. If you follow the guide EXACTLY as it is written you will get that error EVERY time.

Additionally, my /var/log/ispconfig_install.log contains the following two errors on every install.

HTML:

[ISPConfig] - /tmp/ispconfig3_install/install/dist/lib/fedora.lib.php, Line 244: WARNING: Failed to execute the command chmod 755 /var/spool/authdaemon
[ISPConfig] - /tmp/ispconfig3_install/install/lib/installer_base.lib.php, Line 1489: WARNING: Failed to execute the command adduser apache ispapps

I would also like to know what these errors are and how to fix them.

 

Have a poke around /var/lib/mailman/data and you might see that aliases is a symlink to /etc/mailman/aliases

If /etc/mailman/aliases isnt there then mailman "should" create it when you add your first mailing list.

If the alias file isn't present; ie you havent got any lists, then the worst that willl probably happen is it moans in /var/log/maillog about missing file thus:

Code:

May 10 14:27:18 server1 postfix/postalias[2948]: fatal: open /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases: No such file or directory

 

Yes, that it correct. aliases is a symlink to /etc/mailman/aliases.

The first mailing list was created before installing ISPConfig as described in the tutorial.

This error doesn't appear anywhere in my /var/log/maillog log file.

 

Could have sworn when you create your first REAL list (not the mailman admininsitrative list) it populates that file...

...off to check...

 

http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-centos-6.4-x86_64-apache2-dovecot-ispconfig-3

Please make sure that you follow the guide EXACTLY as it is written, that way you can properly produce the error that cmsits is referring to, and the two errors that I am referring to in the log.

 

Hows about this:

If you run /usr/lib/mailman/bin/genaliases you should find the files aliases and aliases.db are populated correctly in /etc/mailman.

I got an error when I ran this as /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py has an empty DEFAULT_SERVER_LANGUAGE on line 76.

I set DEFAULT_SERVER_LANGUAGE = 'en' and the script ran producing the above files which will resolve the errors seen.

However, this appears to insert similar aliases as described in the howto when editing /etc/aliases.

Which, in turn, begs the question, should that step be reworked instead of altering aliases file running genaliases instead? At this point think we should refer to the developers for some input as to the interaction between mailman and the ispconfig configuration scripts.

 

That is correct.

Keep in mind that you CANNOT add the 'en' BEFORE installing ISPConfig as ISPConfig overwrites the file with a new one of it's own when you install ISPConfig. Threfore, that answer cannot prevent the error that displays on the screen during the ISPConfig install.

 

I'd look at something like "touch /etc/mailman/aliases" then "newaliases /etc/mailman/aliases" to create blank db file then, if all you're after is not seeing the error on the screen during installation.

At the end of the day, it doesnt prevent correct installation and operation of ISPConfig.

 

Could you take a look at this thread please as no replys

http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61799

 

Followed the same howto and the same error, stumbled on fix (that worked for me) here.

3 commands:
postmap transport
newaliases
postfix reload

first command gave me an error:
postmap: fatal: open transport: No such file or directory

the other two commands no errors

Re-ran php -q install.php and no
postalias: fatal: open /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases: No such file or directory

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MySQL database to create [dbispconfig]:

MySQL charset [utf8]:

Generating a 2048 bit RSA private key
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writing new private key to 'smtpd.key'

Hope this helps