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

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

Can you create a bug report (well the postfix is a feature request) in
Mantis, so we don't lose track of it?
http://www.devil-linux.org/support/bugs.php

Please provide a patch for the postfix one.

Thanks
 Heiko

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roland Pabel [mailto:rp...@gm...]
> Sent: Friday, December 25, 2009 7:57 AM
> To: dev...@li...
> Subject: [Devil-linux-develop] ipv6/postfix in 1.4RC2
> 
> 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