Switch from Qmail to Postfix Fails...

[bluenen]

Hi,

Running Plesk 9.5.4 on Linux (CentOS 5) and am trying to switch from Qmail to Postfix.

However when I run the autoinstaller it fails to configure postfix correctly, the follow error message is the only error received during the install, autoinstaller actually continues and completes but postfix does not run after this and I have had to switch back to qmail.

$ /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/autoinstaller --select-release-current --install-component postfix

....

Trying to register service xinetd... done
Trying to reload service syslog... syslogd (pid 2345) is running...
klogd (pid 2348) is running...
Reloading syslogd...[ OK ]
Reloading klogd...[ OK ]
done
Configuring Postfix-CourierIMAP Plesk Mail Driver...
Trying to comment out comsat service record from /etc/xinetd.conf... there is no comsat service record in /etc/xinetd.conf

ERROR while trying to Empty service name for postfix
Check the error reason(see log file: ), fix and try again

Aborting...

===> Configuring Courier-IMAP server

Trying to register service xinetd... done
Trying to Configure Courier IMAP for Plesk-specific authentication... done
Trying to restart service courier-imap... couriertcpd (pid 16278 16268 16260 16250) is running...
Stopping Courier-IMAP server:
Stopping imap [ OK ]
Stopping imap-ssl [ OK ]
Stopping pop3 [ OK ]
Stopping pop3-ssl [ OK ]

Starting Courier-IMAP server:
Starting imapd [ OK ]
Starting imap-ssl [ OK ]
Starting pop3 [ OK ]
Starting pop3-ssl [ OK ]

done
Trying to executing mail_restore to synchronize mail server settings and Plesk Database... ==> Checking for: mailsrv_conf_init... ok
==> Checking for: mail_mailbox_restore... ok
==> Checking for: mailsrv_entities_dump... ok
==> Checking for: mail_admin_aliases... ok
==> Checking for: mail_auth_dump... ok
==> Checking for: mailman_lists_dump... ok
==> Checking for: mail_responder_restore... ok
==> Checking for: mail_drweb_restore... not exists
==> Checking for: mail_kav_restore... not exists
==> Checking for: mail_kav8_restore... not exists
==> Checking for: mail_spf_restore... ok
==> Checking for: mail_dk_restore... ok
==> Checking for: mail_grey_restore... ok
done
Shutting down postfix: [FAILED]
Starting postfix: [ OK ]

===> Updating crontab...
Trying to ... done
Trying to reload service xinetd... xinetd (pid 1030) is running...
Reloading configuration: [ OK ]
done
Trying to stop service qmail... qmail-send (pid 15874) is running...
Stopping : done
Trying to unregister service qmail... done
Trying to stop service sendmail... sendmail is stopped
done
Trying to unregister service sendmail... done
Trying to register service postfix... done
Trying to start service postfix... Starting postfix: [ OK ]
done
....

 

[abdi]

Alternatively you may run the following command to switch MTA to Postfix:

/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/autoinstaller --select-release-current --install-component postfix

and for switching to Qmail:

/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/autoinstaller --select-release-current --install-component qmail

 

[bluenen]

Read my post again. You will note that I used that exact command, that isnt the issue, the issue is that it fails.

 

[mw004]

How did you solve the problem?