Back to more-or-less normal...
Mar. 27th, 2002 10:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpThe restoration of 'onegin' went well. Two items I did not take account of when backing up personal files were the .fetchmailrc file in the root directory, and my personal mail file in the /var/spool/mail subdirectory. The latter was probably over 10 MB in size, and there are probably some items in there that it's a shame to have lost, at least for convenient access (my procmail recipes include one instruction that writes all my mail to a .gz file, so if I really need to find an old e-mail, I can... but I won't enjoy it).
Setting up postfix took a little longer than expected, as I copied my saved configuration files on top of the ones installed by rpm, and the result tried to run programs that are apparently no longer part of the postfix suite. I had a bad moment or two trying to uninstall postfix, as I got warnings to the effect that other packages depended on it. I went ahead and supplied a '--nodeps' argument to the erase order, and then reinstalled postfix and copied only the main configuration file from my archive. Shortly thereafter, mail was restored.
Gotta run home and get a large pegboard so as to enclose the inboard side of the wall we've just drywalled on the side facing customers. I forgot my cell at home (again) and didn't configure 'onegin' to accept incoming telnet requests, which provide additional reasons to run by the house.
Cheers...
Setting up postfix took a little longer than expected, as I copied my saved configuration files on top of the ones installed by rpm, and the result tried to run programs that are apparently no longer part of the postfix suite. I had a bad moment or two trying to uninstall postfix, as I got warnings to the effect that other packages depended on it. I went ahead and supplied a '--nodeps' argument to the erase order, and then reinstalled postfix and copied only the main configuration file from my archive. Shortly thereafter, mail was restored.
Gotta run home and get a large pegboard so as to enclose the inboard side of the wall we've just drywalled on the side facing customers. I forgot my cell at home (again) and didn't configure 'onegin' to accept incoming telnet requests, which provide additional reasons to run by the house.
Cheers...
