On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > On 2010/03/23 18:28, Uwe Dippel wrote: >> After continuous upgrades of OpenBSD from 4.0 to 4.6, I always issued >> the usual >> /usr/local/sbin/postfix-enable >> This time, it comes back with >> can't find /etc/mailer.conf.postfix, postfix not enabled >> >> Never had this before, and can't find any mailer.conf.postfix on the system. >> Yes, I also googled, but there is not much of an indication what went wrong. >> On another machine, running 4.5, there is also no such file. > > It's probably already enabled, check in /etc/mailer.conf. > It used to be necessary to re-enable it after each upgrade but > that was fixed (I thought it was before 4.6 though I could be > mistaken..).
No, alas not: $ telnet 127.0.0.1 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to 127.0.0.1. Escape character is '^]'. 220 coit.uniten.edu.my ESMTP Sendmail 8.14.3/8.14.3; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:11:13 +0800 (SGT) Please, check the error message in the install message: --- postfix-2.5.6 ------------------- system(/bin/sh, -c, /usr/local/sbin/postfix stop) failed: exit(1) How to recover from here? (I have no idea, why the postfix stop failed! It has always been running as long as the system was 4.5) Uwe
