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merlinofchaos ([personal profile] merlinofchaos) wrote2003-06-04 11:17 am

Server stuff augh!

Yesterday morning I tried to get Postfix to work, as mentioned in the comments on my earlier post.

I failed and reverted to sendmail. But I wasn't happy about failure, so I took [livejournal.com profile] mallen's suggestion and I grabbed the source rpm and made a tweak.

Well that didn't work either, but it got me closer. Once I remembered that postfix operates in a chroot jail, I made a change, and...that didn't work either. But it did get me closer.

Turns out there's a bug in postfix. I hacked in a fix and recompiled and now it seems to work ok; but man, upgrading postfix, if I ever need to, is going to be exciting.

What if? When. Nothing is bug-free =)

Oh well. Most of the major articles are finally done (and most of them proved to be a pain) so I think I'm getting close to ready to cut over to the new machine. Can't wait to do that and see what survives.