[CentOS] postfix install error: fatal file /etc/postfix/main.cf: parameter setgid_group: unknown group name: postdrop
Rainer Traut
tr.ml at gmx.de
Tue Aug 26 14:52:52 UTC 2008
Thx for your answer.
Ned Slider schrieb:
> Rainer Traut wrote:
>> Trying to switch from sendmail to postfix I did:
>>
>> # yum remove sendmail
>>
>> which resulted in erasing of:
>> mdadm sendmail-doc sendmail sendmail-cf mutt fetchmail redhat-lsb
>>
>> I did then:
>>
>> yum -y install redhat-lsb.x86_64 postfix
>>
>> and got this error:
>>
>> Installing: postfix #########################
>> [1/2]
>> postfix: fatal: file /etc/postfix/main.cf: parameter setgid_group:
>> unknown group name: postdrop
>> warning: group postdrop does not exist - using root
>> warning: group postdrop does not exist - using root
>> warning: group postdrop does not exist - using root
>> warning: group postdrop does not exist - using root
>> Installing: redhat-lsb #########################
>> [2/2]
> You don't need to remove sendmail, you can just use system-switch-mail
> to set postfix as the MTA.
>
I knew that thx.
I tested the exact same steps on our internal testmachine. Must admit it
has EL5.2 x86_64 on it but did not show this behaviour.
Rainer
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