[ubuntu-ca] Postfix on Ubuntu

[Jim Little]

Quoting James Homuth:

> I don't know if this is an appropriate question for the list, but 
> it's worth a shot. I'm trying to get Postfix installed on Ubuntu 6.06 
> and not having much luck. It installs, configures just fine, but it 
> falls over on startup. I get as far as: postfix/postfix-script: 
> starting the Postfix mail system and that's it. Ps command doesn't 
> show me any of the postfix processes running. I'd show a postconf 
> output, but I don't *think* it has anything to do with my 
> configuration... I'm not getting any errors or anything, either on 
> the console or in the logs. Has anyone had luck installing this?

Worked fine for me.  Some configuration errors can cause the postfix
process(es) to not start.  What log files are you checking?  Also are
you using the standard repositories?  Did your install give you any
trouble?  I assume you are using sudo to start postfix.  Are you trying
to run postfix in a chroot jail?

Also the following resources should help:

Postfix wiki:
http://postfix.wiki.xs4all.nl/index.php?title=Main_Page

Postfix howtos and FAQs:
http://www.postfix.org/docs.html

Fairly Secure anti-spam wiki:
http://www.flakshack.com/anti-spam/wiki/index.php

The standard repository builds should work for you, keep trying and post
and specific errors you get here.

Good luck,

Jim