Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1185 mails)

[Jim Flanagan <parttimelinux@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:33 AM, Carlos E. R.
<robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 2010-05-04 04:14, Jim Flanagan wrote:
> > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Carlos E. R. <> wrote:
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> [sent later]
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> > I ran SuSEconfig which returned the following (partial)
> >
> > Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.postfix...
> >         *** WARNING ***
> > Found /etc/postfix/main.cf.SuSEconfig, exiting...
> >         *** WARNING ***
> >
> > The two original errors are still persistent in mail log.
>
> Well, that means that the "new" configuration was not applied, but rather, 
> that you have the same
> postfix files you had in your previous (10.3?) install. Which means that, if 
> there were changes in
> how things are done in postfix, you get a problem. Or maybe not.
>
> The way SuSEconfig works is, that it reads the configuration in 
> /etc/sysconfig/postfix (and the
> rest, but we don't care now) and generates new files in /etc/postfix. It also 
> stores a md5 checksum
> in /var/adm/SuSEconfig/md5/etc/postfix/* of what it does, so that if you (or 
> something) changes
> postfix configuration, SuSEconfig (and thus YaST) will from then on refuse to 
> change postfix. This
> is for your safety, so that you can manually configure postfix without fear 
> of YaST destroying your
> changes.
>
> But it also means that in case of system updates, the config (your config) is 
> not updated, you have
> to do it manually.
>
> What I do sometimes is that I make a backup of postfix config files, and 
> create a new one using YaST
> (you have to delete the config and suseconfig backups in /etc/postfix, or 
> perhaps delete the md5
> files, or mv the config*suseconfig files to primaries), and then manually 
> reapply my own configs
> after reading manuals again.

Understood. Thanks. In the case of postfix, I have tried numerous
times to set main.cf up using YaST, but never got even the basics to
work. Add to that small adjustments, such as allowing or blocking
certain clients that are producing errors, for example, and I don't
see how to successfully use YaST to configure postfix. This most
probably due to my ignorance or impatience. But I do see the advantage
of using YaST whenever possible to make these types of adjustments.

> > Is there a way to set, or reset the postfix time zone. It is 5 hours
> > ahead of my local time, which is the difference between my local time
> > DST and GMT.
>
> There is no such thing as postfix time zone. Perhaps what you see is that 
> postfix is logging things
> in UTC. Can you post examples?

It looks like this is the case. I never noticed before (doh...) that
some postfix log entries are shown in UTC.

In any case it is working now. See my other post in reply to Sandy.
Hopefully I can leave the settings as they are  now, or perhaps Sandy
will have another adjustment or two to recommend. But for now things
are working seemingly OK. Now I can get back to my own email server
and usual client. This gmail web interface has some interesting
subtleties that for me make using it for a mailing list such as this
one, difficult.

Many thanks for your help.

Jim F
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