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ANSWERED: problem starting postfix
It was a bonehead mistake that I made. I copied over a main.cf file from a CentOS VM that I had - it had a path to /usr/libexec. reverting back to the default main.cf and adding a relayhost made things well again.
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We've been migrating some of our VMs to turnkey linux. It's been a very useful exercise.
Having a bit of a problem with one of them, a TKL file server. Postfix will not start:
The error is:
> Starting Postfix Mail Transport Agent: postfixpostfix: fatal: chdir(/usr/libexec/postfix): No such file or directory.
There is in fact no /usr/libexec/ directory at all so the error is valid.
This is a stock appliance, a bit over 1 month old. The *only* non-standard item added to it is the opsview-agent (for Nagios).
I've uninstalled and reinstalled postfix with no change in behavior.
Can anybody offer some guidance?
As you discovered, whilst Debian is Linux, things are sometimes a little different. You probably know already but just in case, for future reference generally Ubuntu and Debian are often close enough to be able to swap stuff between, but as a general rule CentOS (and RHEL etc) are often a little different.