Perfect Setup - Fedora Core 4 - postfix problem

Hi.

Back again with a new server (FC4) and having problems

I have followed the Perfect Setup - Fedora Core 4. Got to the part that says

and keep getting a connection refused error.

I tried

Code:

[root@median ~]# postfix restart
postfix/postfix-script: fatal: usage: postfix start (or stop, reload, abort, flush, check, set-permissions, upgrade-configuration)
[root@median ~]# postfix stop
postfix/postfix-script: stopping the Postfix mail system
[root@median ~]# postfix start
postfix/postfix-script: warning: /var/spool/postfix/etc/services and /etc/services differ
postfix/postfix-script: warning: /var/spool/postfix/etc/resolv.conf and /etc/resolv.conf differ
postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system

(I have checked /var/spool/postfix/etc/resolv.conf and /etc/resolv.conf and NONE of the ip addresses contained in them are mine. There is a third file though, which is /etc/resolv.conf.original which matches /var/spool/postfix/etc/resolv.conf. Also - I can't find any differences between /var/spool/postfix/etc/services and /etc/services.)


At this point I get a connection via telnet but can't do anything. The session just doesn't respond to anything at all, even quit.

I have checked everything I could find in this forum and all seems as it should be but can't

Can you help with this please?

Thanks

 

Code:

[root@median ~]# /etc/init.d/postfix restart
Shutting down postfix:                                     [  OK  ]
Starting postfix:                                          [FAILED]

Mail log shows:

Code:

Feb  1 17:06:40 MEDIAN postfix/postfix-script: stopping the Postfix mail system
Feb  1 17:06:40 palmeac1 postfix/master[1558]: terminating on signal 15
Feb  1 17:06:40 palmeac1 postfix/postalias[1722]: fatal: open /etc/postfix/aliases: No such file or directory

Code:

[root@median ~]# netstat -tap
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address               Foreign Address             State       PID/Program name
tcp        0      0 *:imaps                     *:*                         LISTEN      1184/xinetd
tcp        0      0 *:pop3s                     *:*                         LISTEN      1184/xinetd
tcp        0      0 *:mysql                     *:*                         LISTEN      1274/mysqld
tcp        0      0 *:pop3                      *:*                         LISTEN      1184/xinetd
tcp        0      0 *:imap                      *:*                         LISTEN      1184/xinetd
tcp        0      0 *:http                      *:*                         LISTEN      1316/httpd
tcp        0      0 *:ssh                       *:*                         LISTEN      1172/sshd
tcp        0      0 *:smtp                      *:*                         LISTEN      1558/master
tcp        0      0 *:12121                     *:*                         LISTEN      1374/perl
tcp        0      0 *:https                     *:*                         LISTEN      1316/httpd
tcp        0   1040 median.domain.com:ssh my-host-name:3924 ESTABLISHED 1638/0
tcp       17      0 localhost:smtp              localhost:4383              CLOSE_WAIT  -

 

Does /etc/aliases exist? If so, copy it:

Code:

cp /etc/aliases /etc/postfix aliases
newaliases

Also do this:

Code:

cp -f /etc/services /var/spool/postfix/etc/services
cp -f /etc/resolv.conf /var/spool/postfix/etc/resolv.conf

Then restart Postfix.

 

Thanks guys - that worked nicely.

 

New error has popped up. I got as far as:

Code:

perl -MCPAN -e shell

which went ok, so did

Code:

install HTML::Parser

When I tried to run

Code:

install DB_File

I got the following errors:

Code:

  CPAN.pm: Going to build P/PM/PMQS/DB_File-1.814.tar.gz

Parsing config.in...
Looks Good.
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Note (probably harmless): No library found for -ldb
Writing Makefile for DB_File
cp DB_File.pm blib/lib/DB_File.pm
AutoSplitting blib/lib/DB_File.pm (blib/lib/auto/DB_File)
gcc -c  -I/usr/local/BerkeleyDB/include -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBUGGING -e -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/gdbm -O2 -g -pipe -Wh=i386 -mtune=pentium4 -fasynchronous-unwind-tables   -DVERSION=\"1.814\" -DXS_V6/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE"  -D_NOT_CORE  -DmDB_Prefix_t=size_t -DmDB_Hash_t
version.c:30:16: error: db.h: No such file or directory
make: *** [version.o] Error 1
  /usr/bin/make  -- NOT OK
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  make had returned bad status, install seems impossible

cpan> install DB_File
Running install for module DB_File
Running make for P/PM/PMQS/DB_File-1.814.tar.gz
  Is already unwrapped into directory /root/.cpan/build/DB_File-1.814
  Has already been processed within this session
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  make had returned bad status, install seems impossible

cpan>

 

The devel files for the Berkeley DB are missing. You can either install these, or you can try to install the DB_File module with yum (yum will resolve all dependencies).
You can run

Code:

yum search perl|grep -i DB

to find the correct package that you can then install using

Code:

yum install <package_name>

 

Thanks Falko. I ran

Code:

apt-get install db4-devel

and re-ran the

Code:

install DB_File

with no errors.

Thanks again for all the help.

ISPConfig being installed next so knowing my luck I'll see you in that forum lol