https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=228479 Summary: Postfix is configured for inet_protocols=all if selecting ipv4 only support during installation Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: RC 5 Platform: i386 OS/Version: SuSE Other Status: NEW Severity: Enhancement Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: yast2-maintainers@suse.de ReportedBy: lrupp@novell.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com CC: varkoly@novell.com During installation, you can now disable ipv6 support for your machine (fine ;-) but postfix keeps configured for all inet_protocoll which results in warning messages in /var/log/messages like: Dec 11 23:59:26 travel ip-up: sendmail: warning: inet_protocols: IPv6 support is disabled: Address family not supported by protocol Dec 11 23:59:26 travel ip-up: sendmail: warning: inet_protocols: configuring for IPv4 support only Dec 11 23:59:26 travel ip-up: postqueue: warning: inet_protocols: IPv6 support is disabled: Address family not supported by protocol Dec 11 23:59:26 travel ip-up: postqueue: warning: inet_protocols: configuring for IPv4 support only This can easily be fixed on the command line with postconf -e inet_protocols=ipv4 But perhaps we have more services which are configured for using ipv6 as default and ipv4 as fallback - so someone should decide: 1) if we disable the installation option 2) if we add some SuSEconfig script (if necessary) for configuring services (like the postfix example above) for ipv4 or ipv6 3) if we handle this as bug for each package and develop "some magic (scripts)" which find out the correct setting for each package 4) if we live with the warnings in the logfiles and the possible delays in some services, which using ipv4 only as fallback Currently I would prefer option 3, but as this comes up with the installation option in YaST, assigning it to yast2-maintainers for further investigation. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.