Slackware things was Re: [CS-FSLUG] Babel? Oh my ...

[Eduardo Sanchez]

Wow Brian, now that was a real story there! I feel like being among old 
warriors, survivors, trading war stories from the good times :-), only 
without the bragging...

I have two questions for either you or anyone else on the list:

1. How can I report a bug in Slackware?
(Because I feel I have to share this as a bug, and also the workaround, 
with other people from the distro)

2. How can I get a good connection speed from linuxpackages.net?

Any suggestion will be appreciated.

Blessings,


Eduardo

On Tuesday 18 May 2004 00:56, Brian Derr wrote:
> On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 11:17:09AM -0400, Eduardo Sanchez wrote:
> [...]
> > Weird, isn'it?
> 
> Wow, that was quite a process!
> 
> I just fixed an issue that has been bothering me for a while.  The 
past
> couple of days postfix has been deferring all my mail and at the same
> time delievering it.  Thus I had mail for several days constantly 
being
> redelivered every few minutes.  Needless to say my inbox filled up 
very
> quickly.  Couldn't figure out what the problem was since I hadn't
> changed anything in the configuration files.
> 
> So, I deleted every trace of the postfix I had installed many moons 
ago
> from source.  I grabbed a package off linuxpackages.net and installed
> it.  After fiddling around with the permissions for the
> /var/spool/postfix directory I was able to get the postfix daemon up 
and
> running.  Yeah!
> 
> Now for the test, any deferred emails?  I did at first, but now I
> haven't been getting any...?!  Oh, and to make matters really fun I
> didn't realize that the /usr/sbin/sendmail binary wasn't put there by
> the postfix package so I kept getting an error that sendmail wasn't
> working.  So, after much googling and punching myself in the face I
> tried moving /usr/sbin/sendmail and made a symlink from
> /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix (which was in the package) to
> /usr/sbin/sendmail...works like a charm!  :-)
> 
> These are the woes of the postfix admin (me) for the past few days and
> I'm glad to say all is well[*].
> 
> [*] I HOPE!!!!
> 
> Brian  :-)
> 
> -- 
> The just man walketh in his integrity:
> his children are blessed after him.  -- Proverbs 20:7
> 

-- 
Prof. Eduardo Sanchez
Asuncion, Paraguay, South America
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 Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire,
 And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire,
   Cast on the Darkness into which Ourselves,
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