Hi folks. I'm doing a perfect server install of ubuntu 16.10, apache, dovecot, ispconfig3, etc. and I get to item 7, "Install Amavisd-new..." and it fails. Well, ok, I got iot wrong somewhere so, rather than mucking about I'll start again. In with the instal media, reboot and off I go. Only to get to the same point and it fails again. ARGH! Anyone care to guess at what I've got wrong? Here's the output from the install line. Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... amavisd-new is already the newest version (1:2.10.1-4ubuntu1). apt-listchanges is already the newest version (3.3ubuntu3). bzip2 is already the newest version (1.0.6-8build1). clamav is already the newest version (0.99.2+dfsg-2ubuntu2). clamav-daemon is already the newest version (0.99.2+dfsg-2ubuntu2). clamav-docs is already the newest version (0.99.2+dfsg-2ubuntu2). libauthen-sasl-perl is already the newest version (2.1600-1). libio-socket-ssl-perl is already the newest version (2.036-1). libio-string-perl is already the newest version (1.08-3). libnet-dns-perl is already the newest version (1.06-1). libnet-ldap-perl is already the newest version (1:0.6500+dfsg-1). spamassassin is already the newest version (3.4.1-4). unzip is already the newest version (6.0-20ubuntu1). zip is already the newest version (3.0-11). arj is already the newest version (3.10.22-15). cabextract is already the newest version (1.6-1). daemon is already the newest version (0.6.4-1). libnet-ident-perl is already the newest version (1.24-1). lzop is already the newest version (1.03-4). nomarch is already the newest version (1.4-3). postgrey is already the newest version (1.36-3). zoo is already the newest version (2.10-28). 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up amavisd-new (1:2.10.1-4ubuntu1) ... Creating/updating amavis user account... Job for amavis.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status amavis.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. invoke-rc.d: initscript amavis, action "start" failed. [0;1;31mâ—[0m amavis.service - LSB: Starts amavisd-new mailfilter Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/amavis; generated; vendor preset: enabled) Active: [0;1;31mfailed[0m (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2016-12-18 17:53:20 NZDT; 12ms ago Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8) Process: 7118 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/amavis start [0;1;31m(code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)[0m Dec 18 17:53:20 ardbeg amavis[7118]: Starting amavisd: The value of varia...en Dec 18 17:53:20 ardbeg amavis[7118]: a fully qualified domain name; perha...h. Dec 18 17:53:20 ardbeg amavis[7118]: You must explicitly assign a FQDN of...me Dec 18 17:53:20 ardbeg amavis[7118]: in /etc/amavis/conf.d/05-node_id, or...'s Dec 18 17:53:20 ardbeg amavis[7118]: network name! Dec 18 17:53:20 ardbeg amavis[7118]: (failed). Dec 18 17:53:20 ardbeg systemd[1]: [0;1;39mamavis.service: Control process exited, ...=1[0m Dec 18 17:53:20 ardbeg systemd[1]: [0;1;31mFailed to start LSB: Starts amavisd-new ...r.[0m Dec 18 17:53:20 ardbeg systemd[1]: [0;1;39mamavis.service: Unit entered failed state.[0m Dec 18 17:53:20 ardbeg systemd[1]: [0;1;39mamavis.service: Failed with result 'exit...'.[0m Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full. dpkg: error processing package amavisd-new (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: amavisd-new
Fixed it! $myhostname wasn't being set. A quick edit to /etc/amavis/conf.d/05-node_id so the hostname was set and away it went.
