[Devil-linux-develop] ipv6/postfix in 1.4RC2

[Roland P. <rp...@gm...>]

Hi,
after running a 1.2.x version for over a year and a half, I finally switched 
to 1.4 (first RC1 a few weeks ago, now RC2) and I must say it's running 
great!
I'm just having two suggestions:
It looks like IPv6 is still disabled in net-tools, since ifconfig doesn't show 
me my IPv6 addresses. Consequently, static IPv6 addresses set in 
sysconfig/nic/ifcfg-eth0 cannot be setup, ifconfig gives me an error message 
like
ifconfig eth0 inet6 add ...
inet6: Unknown host
but "ip -6 addr add ..." works fine. Since, as far as I understand it, "ip" is 
supposed to supersede "ifconfig", I made a patch that exchanges 
all "ifconfig" command in /etc/init.d/network to "ip" commands. It was all 
straightforward, except for the "ifconfig $DEVICE $IP $BCAST $NMASK up" 
command, which I separated into the "link set up" and the address setting 
part (couldn't find a line which does both at the same time). I copied my 
file to my router and rebooted, everything was fine as before...
Secondly, my postfix has a few more databases which should get initialized 
with postmap whenever postfix restarts. The list is currently handled in the 
variable DBFILES in the postfix init script itself. That means I have to 
change the init.d script which is then save to etc-mods.tar.bz2 . I think it 
would be better to either move DBFILES to sysconfig/config, or maybe put the 
names all into a file, say /etc/postfix/dbfiles, and have that file read in 
and executed postmap upon each entry... I can make a patch if there are no 
objections...
cu
Roland