SOLVED: Re: Postfix compiling woes

["Dirk H. Schulz" <dirk.schulz%kinzesberg.de@localhost>]

Martti Kuparinen schrieb:
> You might want to create /etc/rc.conf.d/postfix so that the old 
> postfix is never used...
>
> # cat /etc/rc.conf.d/postfix
> postfix_command="/usr/pkg/sbin/postfix"
> required_files='/usr/pkg/etc/postfix/main.cf'
> start_cmd='/usr/pkg/sbin/postfix start'
> stop_cmd='/usr/pkg/sbin/postfix stop'
> reload_cmd='/usr/pkg/sbin/postfix reload'
>
> # /etc/rc.d/postfix restart
>
> /Martti
I have done so as described by pkg_info:
> name="postfix"                                                                                                                
>  
> rcvar=$name                                                                                                                   
>  
> postfix_command="/usr/pkg/sbin/postfix"                                                                                       
>  
> required_files="/usr/pkg/etc/postfix/main.cf"                                                                                 
>  
> start_precmd="postfix_precmd"                                                                                                 
>  
> start_cmd="/usr/pkg/sbin/postfix 
> start"                                                                                       
>  
> stop_cmd="/usr/pkg/sbin/postfix 
> stop"                                                                                         
>  
> reload_cmd="/usr/pkg/sbin/postfix 
> reload"                                                                                     
>  
> extra_commands="reload"                                                                                                       
>  
> spooletcdir="/var/spool/${name}/etc"                                                                                          
>  
> postconf="/usr/pkg/sbin/postconf"                                                                                             
>  
> required_dirs=$spooletcdir                                                                                                    
>  
That was what why I was stuck - I thought I had done it right.

But - I have made the mistake of using my old main.cf with the newly 
made postfix - and all the directory and path entries pointed to the old 
installation. What an embarrassing mistake.

Thanks for your help, Martti!

Dirk