Red Hat Enterprise Server postfix broken (Third email-no response in over two weeks)
Dear Red Hat, Maybe with the esteemed list of people above I may get a response as my first direct email over two week ago has gone ignored and last weeks email (using your web site logged in under the account we bought 8 licenses for Enterprise server 3.0 under) has also gone without response. (Sorry to the mailing list) Issue 1 (and most important) Red Hat Enterprise Servers Postfix is broke. I installed the Postfix and ran switch mail to enable it as default. Then configured /etc/openldap/ldap.conf, /etc/ldap.conf and /etc/openldap/slapd.conf I also ran authconfig and checked pam.d and nsswitch to confirm all enteries had taken. I configured postfix (as I had done in SuSE which worked great) and ran postmap with an ldap:virtualldap. and I got segfault. Just to make sure I was not being stupid I went back double checked it all and redid the whole process in SuSE 8.2 pro (worked there but not in Red Hat) I also installed Webmin and even it tells me the ES3.0 postfix does not support LDAP. Being tired of it after the third attempt I installed Postfix from Red Hat 9.0 (I saw some people where using it for OpenLDAP) and it works great. (all without further editing my configuration files) Issue 2. I hate floppies. I mounted and used a USB Key and read files (no writing involved). ran sync, umounted and removed the key and the whole system locked up. (I couldn't even ssh access) I had to power cycle to regain access. Expecting a glitch I did the same process on three of the other servers running ES3.0 and they also all died Issue 3. SquirrelMail. I have installed and worked with SquirrelMail for a while and Japanese has always been supported. Now I just purchased 8 copies of Red Hat ES3.0 (in Japan from Red Hat Japan) only to find out that Japanese was removed.. My Mail Server project is due. I lost days working around and confirming what parts work and which don't. My customer has only heard that there are a few delays and I have showed their technical contact the issues today to confirm that my work arounds are acceptable. All this said as an RHCE (7.3) I am very disappointed in these problem being shipped as the stable series (when I have to use Red Hat 9 products to get my servers together) and in being ignored in my previous two emails. I can promise you if these trends in "enterprise" behavior continue I will no longer be recommending Red Hat for future projects. Thank you -- David Blomberg AIS, APS, ASE, CCNA, LCP, LCA, Linux+, LPI I, MCP, MCSA, MCSE, RHCE, Server+ dblomber@davelinux.com www.davelinux.com -------------------- Nihon Libertec dblomber@libertec.com
David Alan Blomberg wrote:
emails. I can promise you if these trends in "enterprise" behavior continue I will no longer be recommending Red Hat for future projects. Is this a plug for SuSE? Isn't competition great?
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Is this a plug for SuSE? Isn't competition great?
Actually I am truly sorry to bring an off topic subject here but I am hoping it will motivate Red Hat to do something (other than Ignore me) BTW I found some of my solutions here so for the archive of emails thanks. -- David Blomberg AIS, APS, ASE, CCNA, LCP, LCA, Linux+, LPI I, MCP, MCSA, MCSE, RHCE, Server+ dblomber@davelinux.com www.davelinux.com -------------------- Nihon Libertec dblomber@libertec.com
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Issue 1 (and most important) Red Hat Enterprise
Servers Postfix is
broke. I installed the Postfix and ran switch mail to enable it as default. Then configured /etc/openldap/ldap.conf, /etc/ldap.conf and /etc/openldap/slapd.conf I also ran authconfig and checked pam.d and nsswitch to confirm all enteries had taken. I configured postfix (as I had done in SuSE which worked great) and ran postmap with an ldap:virtualldap. and I got segfault. Just to make sure I was not being stupid I went back double checked it all and redid the whole process in SuSE 8.2 pro (worked there but not in Red Hat) I also installed Webmin and even it tells me the ES3.0 postfix does not support LDAP. Being tired of it after the third attempt I installed Postfix from Red Hat 9.0 (I saw some people where using it for OpenLDAP) and it works great. (all without further editing my configuration files)
What's clear is that paying more for licences doesn't make you more happy. If Postfix doesn't work it just doesn't work. You can investigate with strace, ltrace, ... what's going wrong but you will loose too much time. Just based in my own experience, if you are going to install a mail server or any other critical software for RedHat/SuSE/Debian build it from sources. Don't trust precompiled packages at all. And then write down the configure options you passed to configure and keep them in a secure place. Use something as ./configure --prefix=/opt/_my_custom_postfix_ver.x.x --... so your custom build don't mix with the default RedHat/SuSE/... setup. A few weeks ago I had similar problems with the default squid proxy-cache installed with SuSE 9. It was precompiled with many unnecesary options and a memory leak nearly blocked the server. By just compiling from sources and removing all the unnecesary option in the "./configure" step the software runs now really well. It took no more than half an hour to study the "./configure --help" options, compiling and installing as service. You can also use static linking to improbe system independence, but you will need to recompile if some security hole is been discovered in dependant libraries.
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