[BlueOnyx:07867] Re: Submission port reset issue

[Joe Kelly]

Thank you!
Joe Kelly

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Michael Stauber <mstauber at blueonyx.it> wrote:
> Hi Bill & Joe,
>
>> >>Does anyone know if there's a way to prevent the loss of the
>> >>Submission Port setting when Blue Onyx is updated by YUM?  We have
>> >>clients using port 587.  Every time the server goes through a yum
>> >>update, the Submission Port checkbox is cleared.  As a result,
>> >>numerous users cannot send mail until the setting is reset to yes.
>>
>> It happens to me too.  I have to check frequently, and if I forget, my
>> customers certainly remind me!
>
> If that happens, then your server doesn't have a dedicated /home partition.
>
> So you probably didn't install from the CD and used the TAR-ball installer
> instead. Now IF you installed from the TAR-ball installer, then it warned you
> about the missing /home partition, but apparently you somehow managed to
> ignore that warning, sorry.
>
> The thing here is: BlueOnyx needs a dedicated /home and expects it to be
> there. If it is missing, a hell of a lot of work arounds need to be made in
> order to retain the ability to create sites.
>
> There is a CCE constructor named ...
>
> /usr/sausalito/constructor/base/blueonyx/51_set_default_services.pl
>
> ... which is part of this RPM: blueonyx-cd-installer
>
> If no /home partition is present, it assumes that this is a first time startup
> of CCE and in that case it then performs a few configurational steps that are
> usually ONLY done during first startup of a fresh BlueOnyx server. Like
> enabling Sendmail, POP3 and IMAP and MySQL.
>
> If it runs, it will also - as a side-effect - turn off POP3S and IMAPs, as
> well as SMPTPS.
>
> Solution: Short of reinstalling *with* a dedicated /home partition, the
> constructor ...
>
>  /usr/sausalito/constructor/base/blueonyx/51_set_default_services.pl
>
> ... can be deleted. It won't come back during updates, so that will solve the
> problem that the email related services reset on every CCEd restart.
>
> --
> With best regards
>
> Michael Stauber
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