[Bug 423653] Re: Openvpn + rkhunter + postfix = openvpn client not able to start

[sefs]

... and I got this response ....

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> It would start to connect then give this error...
>
> ***
> /usr/sbin/postconf: fatal: open /etc/postfix/main.cf: No such file or
> directory cp: `/etc/resolv.conf' and `/etc/resolv.conf' are the same file
> run-parts: /etc/resolvconf/update-libc.d/postfix exited with return code 1
> run-parts: /etc/resolvconf/update.d/libc exited with return code 1
> Wed Sep  2 23:07:19 2009 script failed: external program exited with error
> status: 1 ***
>
> and there we have it ... it's postfix!!!
 
No, it's not. It's someone's misguided attempt at shell scripting.
Postfix is an innocent victim.
 
> I recalled that I had installed rkhunter .. a rootkit checker for
> ubuntu linux.
 
There's what you have: a Ubuntu bug.
 
> It had for some ungodly reason insisted that it need postfix and
> by extension mailx and bsd-mailx to be able to operate.  This I
> believe are only recent dependancies in Jaunty.  And it was about
> the time of the installed that openvpn began to misbehave.  So I
> uninstalled postfix, mailx and bsd-mailx (I hope they are not of
> importance to have on the systerm) and was back in business. The
> errors were gone.
 
I would guess that the rkhunter wants to be able to send mail to the
admin. I'm not sure why it would require mailx to do this.
 
> I somehow suspect thought that openvpn and postfix should be able
> to co-exist on the same machine.
 
If you see this email, they do. I'm running Postfix on both ends of
this openvpn tunnel, relaying the outbound mail through the peer. If
you *don't* see this email, they still work fine together, because
this is the way I send and receive email, and I know it works.
 
> I remember when installing it I chose a no configuration option
> since i did not know why it was being forced on me and did not
> want to waste time configuring something i did not need. 
>
> So... does anyone know if these two things can coexist peacefully
> and what would need to be done for that to happen given the above
> error? 
 
I would have no idea. Your proper means of proceeding, again, would
be to file a Ubuntu bug report. I would suspect that the shell
scripting was done in the rkhunter package, but to be sure, you
should list all involved packages and let the maintainers figure out
whose bug it is.
 
On second thought ... what is this update-libc.d and update.d?
Whatever package installed those is the probable culprit.

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Openvpn + rkhunter + postfix = openvpn client not able to start 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/423653
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