Re: Can't get opendkim to work on Ubuntu

From: Paul N. Pace <paulnpace_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:13:36 -0700

Just before getting your email I had performed 'apt-get remove opendkim'
and then 'apt-get autoremove'. and then followed the Ubuntu Community Help
page on backports, which states all versions 11.04 and later by default do
not use backports, and IAW the guide ran 'aptitude install
opendkim/precise-backports' and got the following message at the bottom of
the installation feed:

Configuration file `/etc/opendkim.conf'
 ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation.
 ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version.
   What would you like to do about it ? Your options are:
    Y or I : install the package maintainer's version
    N or O : keep your currently-installed version
      D : show the differences between the versions
      Z : start a shell to examine the situation
 The default action is to keep your current version.
*** opendkim.conf (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? Y
Installing new version of config file /etc/opendkim.conf ...
chown: cannot access `/var/run/opendkim': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing opendkim (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up opendkim (2.6.8-0ubuntu1~ubuntu12.04.1) ...
chown: cannot access `/var/run/opendkim': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing opendkim (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 opendkim

And similar after 'aptitude install opendkim-tools/precise-backports:

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up opendkim (2.6.8-0ubuntu1~ubuntu12.04.1) ...
chown: cannot access `/var/run/opendkim': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing opendkim (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 opendkim

Now I am getting the following message in /var/log/mail.log:

mail postfix/smtpd: fatal: 8891:localhost: valid hostname or network
address required

And the following new message in /var/log/mail.err:

mail postfix/smtpd: fatal: 8891:localhost: valid hostname or network
address required

Also, in response to your suggestions on using sockets /var/spool/postfix/
does not have a 'run' folder.




On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Scott Kitterman <ietf-dkim_at_kitterman.com>wrote:

> Packages only get pulled from backports if you explicitly request it, so
> it's safe to enable.
>
> sudo apt-get -t precise-backports install opendkim
>
> (That's from memory - it's close, but may not be exactly correct)
>
> Scott K
>
>
>
> "Paul N. Pace" <paulnpace_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Thank you, Scott, I will try those solutions shortly.
> >
> >I installed 'opendkim' from current repositories as I have not enabled
> >backports. Will backports cause issues with any other packages? I'm not
> >clear on how backports works and whether or not I would update or
> >install packages from backports that I might prefer come from Precise.
>
Received on Wed Apr 17 2013 - 00:14:10 PST