Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] [0.6Beta1] Errors and Issues from 7/17snapshot

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Dean Nedelman wrote:
>>>I downloaded and starting playing with the 7/17 0.6 Beta 1 snapshot.
>>>
>>>The good news is that I can now load it into 64MB of memory.  However,
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> after
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>>>it loads, top and procinfo both say I only have 4MB free.
>>>
>>>The bad news includes:
>>>
>>>o Errors from postfix/postfix-script:
>>>	- warning: /var/spool/postfix/lib/libnss_dns-2.3.2.so and
>>>/lib/libnss_dns-2.3.2.so differ
>>
>>cmp is part of the DIFFUTILS package and was just forgotten in the jail
>>script.
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> 
> Actually, it doesn't exist at the command line either.

Yeah, because it's a package. ;-)
Enable DIFFUTILS in /etc/sysconfig/software.

>>>o Postfix noew complains with a "warning: dict_nis_init: NIS domain name
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> not
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>>>set - NIS lookups disabled)".  This never used to happen...
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>>same as above
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> 
> This is because there now needs the following statement in main.cf:
> 	alias_maps = $alias_database
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> Not a devil-linux issue.

good to hear

>>>o (related to above): Rather than find my local machines in the hosts
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> file
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>>>(as was done in V0.5), Postfix is now returning "unknown" for my local
>>>machines.
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>>same as above
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> This (it turned out) is because the jail script doesn't copy over
> /etc/hosts - and my local machines were only defined in it.
> 

I added /usr/bin/cmd and /etc/hosts to the jail script.
Just add the following 2 lines to /etc/jail/POSTFIX
COPY /etc/hosts
COPY /usr/bin/cmp

> I would "suggest" a 256MB limit (even though the CD's will support 700MB).
> Why?  Because I would have to see (as a requirement) that people had to buy
> the 512MB USB flash drives - which will be the most expensive.  I think the
> 256MB flash drives have a reasonable price point.
> 
> Not that my system would support that...

I don't think that this is practical. But we will need a solution at 
some point to control the size. I guess this comes back to a "User Build 
System".

cya
   Heiko