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From: Michael Sullivan <msulli1355@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Migrating servers to a new box
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:22:33
Message-Id: 591754.95745.qm@web82706.mail.mud.yahoo.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Migrating servers to a new box by Michael Sullivan
1 --- Michael Sullivan <msulli1355@×××××.com> wrote:
2
3 >
4 > --- Michael Sullivan <msulli1355@×××××.com> wrote:
5 >
6 > > This morning my server box died (power supply
7 > > problem
8 > > I think). I've pulled the hard drive and am
9 > trying
10 > > to
11 > > set up a similar environment on one of my other
12 > > boxes.
13 > > I've copied over two user home directories, as
14 > well
15 > > as exim.conf and dovecot.conf to their proper
16 > > places,
17 > > and restarted the servers. I think we're getting
18 > > new
19 > > mail in, but I'm not sure where it's going.
20 > > Attached
21 > > is the results of grep 'Apr 10' /var/log/mail.log
22 > .
23 > > AFAIK, nothing is being rejected. While we're on
24 > > the
25 > > subject, what files do I need to move/replace in
26 > > order
27 > > to make sure that all my users can log onto their
28 > > accounts on this alternate box; is it just
29 > > /etc/passwd
30 > > and /etc/shadow, or is there more?
31 > >
32 >
33 > I forgot to add in my previous post that I'm using
34 >
35 > camille ~ # emerge -pv exim
36 >
37 > These are the packages that would be merged, in
38 > order:
39 >
40 > Calculating dependencies... done!
41 > [ebuild R ] mail-mta/exim-4.69 USE="X
42 > exiscan-acl
43 > ldap mysql pam perl sasl ssl syslog tcpd -dnsdb
44 > -domainkeys -dovecot-sasl -exiscan -gnutls -ipv6
45 > -lmtp
46 > -mailwrapper -mbox -mbx -nis -postgres -radius -spf
47 > -sqlite -srs" 0 kB
48 >
49 > Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0
50 > kB
51 >
52 > and my exim.conf file (attached)
53 >
54 > And on closer inspection of the mail.log I saw that
55 > all the messages are being temporarily rejected
56 > after
57 > DATA. Now if only I knew what that meant...
58 >
59 >
60
61 OK. I found out that michael@××××××××××××.com was
62 being rewritten to michael@×××××××××××××××××.com in
63 /etc/aliases (the first thing I would've thought of if
64 I'd been using sendmail). I've updated that file, and
65 now we're back to:
66
67 Apr 10 15:16:56 camille exim[26689]: [1\24] 2008-04-10
68 15:16:56 1Jk3CZ-0006wT-UD
69 H=web82708.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.201.89]
70 F=<msulli1355@×××××.com> temporarily rejected after
71 DATA
72
73 Any thoughts?
74
75
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