Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Problem with postfix and 9/10/08 development version

[Bruce S. <bw...@re...>]

Is the problem with the regular /var filesystem, or in the chroot jail
creation?   Or both?

 - BS


On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Serge Leschinsky <fi...@in...> wrote:
> Heiko,
>
> OK, I'll try
>
> --
> Serge
>
>
> Heiko Zuerker wrote:
>> Quoting "Fred Frigerio" <ffr...@lo...>:
>>
>>> I am having a problem with postfix wanting to have a /var/lib/postfix
>>> directory that is missing from the ISO. Postfix keeps a master.lock file
>>> there. That is blocking postfix starting up. Creating the directory with
>>> postfix:root access solves the problem. Maybe on your next build you can
>>> check and add it to the bootcd.iso?
>>
>> I'm out of the country right now (back in Germany for a visit) and
>> can't access my build box.
>>
>> We have 2 options to resolve this:
>> 1) just create the /var/lib/postfix , but I'm not sure what else is
>> being saved there and if it needs to survive a reboot if it's a mail
>> server.
>> 2) there's a postfix data_dir (or something like that) setting we
>> could point to /var/spool/postfix, which may be mounted on a disk.
>>
>> Could one of the guys with CVS write access take care of this please?