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[makoReactor]

I am using Fedora Core 4. When I installed Fedora, I picked for the postfix mail server. when I try to run postfix i get this:


# postfix check
postfix: fatal: chdir(/var/spool/postfix): No such file or directory


# postfix start
postfix: fatal: chdir(/var/spool/postfix): No such file or directory


Why didn't fedora chreate the folder /var/spool/postfix ?

[makoReactor]

No one has this problem?

[stdunbar]

It looks like you need to create a /var/spool/postfix directory for some reason. On my FC3 machine it is:

$ ls -ld /var/spool/postfix
drwxr-xr-x  16 root root 4096 Jun 10 02:38 /var/spool/postfix

I would not think that it would have changed between FC3 and FC4.

[makoReactor]

New errors


/etc/postfix/postfix-script: line 191: /usr/sbin/postsuper: No such file or directory
/etc/postfix/postfix-script: line 98: /usr/sbin/postlog: No such file or directory

[makoReactor]

postsuper and postlog are scripts that were not created for some reasion when Fedora 4 install Postfix. Any idea why Fedora is not creating these things?