Upgrading maelstrom

[merlinofchaos]

Really. I got redhat 9, since I let redhat 8 sit on that machine until it had already been upgraded beyond. What the heck. Installing the OS now and then the tedious process of transferring config and data to the new machine will begin. I'll probably be done Wednesday-ish since I won't have any time to work on it this evening once EQ starts up.

Comments

[mallen.livejournal.com]

RH 9 is real nice, IMO

RH9

[merlinofchaos]

So far I'm unhappy that the options they chose on postfix/sasl make it completely impossible to do quite what I want, despite the fact that there are two ways to do it -- they chose to compile the pieces with both options removed. So I'm stuck with sendmail. :/

[mallen.livejournal.com]

What options are those?

Plus, you could recompile from SRPM. It's really easy to edit the spec files and turn on most compile-time options.

[merlinofchaos]

Well, what I want to do is have SMTP auth use /etc/passwd -- there's several ways to do it; 2 of them require passwd being set 644 permissions which I won't do. Method #1 requires a daemon named pwcheck which isn't included with the sasl1 implementation they have;
method #2 requires using saslauthd which is part of sasl2; but for no reason I can fathom, postfix is compiled with sasl1 support and not 2 (even though sasl1 is piggybacked inside the RPM for sasl2, so there's
very little reason to use it if there's an sasl2 option).

Plus, you could recompile from SRPM. It's really easy to edit the spec files and turn on most compile-time options.

Tempting. Given how long I beat my head on it, having never actually done anything with an SRPM I didn't want to spend more time figuring out how.