From: Bruce S. <bw...@re...> - 2008-09-01 23:02:07
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> Well I'm here I find myself thinking of a couple of other things: > - Could anyone who understands these things upgrade Nano in DL 1.3 to > v2? Nano is now DL's default editor, which is good for me, but DL is > using v1.2.4. Done. (in CVS, the next test build will have it) > - In DL 1.3 the default configuration of Postfix (main.cf) requires as > data_directory a directory /var/lib/postfix owned by postfix, so you > have to create this manually after each boot before Postfix will work, > how do I automate this process (and could this be fixed for a future > release)? And even with this fixed manually I am at present unable to > get Postfix working after the upgrade to DL 1.3. Probably the best place to create the directory would be in /etc/init.d/postfix We might be able to fix it when we create the CD image. I'd have to play around with it since it creates a chroot jail. > - What is the easiest way to configure DL to send outgoing emails (e.g. > for crontab messages / warning / diagnostic purposes)? Maybe I don't > need to use Postfix at all! If all you need to do is to send email, check out 'nail'. I believe it can be configured to use an external SMTP server, or act as it's own. Much easier than running postfix. - BS |