Ralf, Thanks for the quick response, especially on a Friday afternoon.
> > Old postfix logged via syslog. OpenPKG postfix does not. > Using syslog is against the OpenPKG rule of 100% self-containment and > especially breaks support for multiple OpenPKG (and Postfix) instances > on a single machine (which we use a lot). Both fair enough. > easily build a Postfix package with syslog support. Just remove the > fakesyslog-related things from the postfix.spec. That's all. In full knowledge that the answer should be RTFM, but I hope mitigated by the fact that I have been and will continue to RTFM fsvo M, could you please give me a quick hint on how to step throught the "unpack rpm -> edit spec -> build and install" process? I've seen the life cycle, but cannot yet tie it to commands and file layout. If it helps, I'm quite familiar with FreeBSD ports/packages and Solaris packages. > > Old postfix logged info messages for each message. OpenPKG postfix does > > not. > I think this could be wrong permissions. Bingo! I had neglected to consider the fact that I wa now dealing with direct logging for multiple users. > logging level in the main.cf. I wasn't aware of any logging config withing the .cf realm except for setting the syslog facility. > OpenPKG consistently uses Berkeley-DB across packages because although > the dbm/ndbm API is supported by most Unix platforms the underlying > hash file format is far away from being portable and equal. That's fair enough. > What is the reason why you dislike DB and want to use DBM? I have no emotional affiliation with either, however I can think of a few reasons to want the ability to use dbm. o Choice is good (DBM and DB aren't exclusive, are they?) o Native is often good - fewer deps, less to manage, support, etc. o postalias tries dbm by default (is this changable?) o The change is not obvious to migrators (a docs/note/warn issue?) o Native sendmail is still used as an MTA, hence dbm files are still needed The last item is the biggest consideration in my case. > If you insist, just replacing the HAS_DB stuff in postfix.spec with > HAS_DBM should do the trick. Ok. -Andrew- -- ________________________________________________________________ | -Andrew J. Caines- 703-886-2689 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Unix Systems Engineer, WorldCom [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org User Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
