<div class="gmail_quote">2010/7/8 Joe(theWordy)Philbrook <<a href="mailto:jtwdyp@ttlc.net">jtwdyp@ttlc.net</a>> <blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote"> Yeah I know Lucid is ready. But I just acquired an amd_64 desktop, I have karmic on my amd_64 laptop And I wanted to duplicate it as much as possible. installing the same packages and attempt copying the /home directories intact to see if I can preserve all my user configurations without things like e17 choking on incorrect ~/.e/ files... Then the plan is to see how much I can keep when I upgrade karmic to lucid... But anyway I haven't got that far. This issue is with apt-get install postfix OK now for starters I only want post fix for local loopback That is it will neither receive nor send anything to/from the internet... So when I installed postfix I was glad that there was a configuration pop-up that let me select the local option. The problem is that it then proceeded to insist that I provide it with a fully qualified domain name for my machine. Well it doesn't have one. My mail client accesses my ISP's SMTP server directly. And my "fetch" script calls fetchmail this way: *) fetchmail --all --flush --mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T";; So postfix will only see locally generated mail that I NEVER want it to deliver beyond my local machine... None the less the config tool insists on having a qualified domain, and no matter what I put there I get an error. And all following apt-get installs tell me that /etc/postfix/<a href="http://main.cf/" target="_blank">main.cf</a> has a bad parameter value. And that the sub process dpkg returned error code 1 The only way I can get it to stop haunting apt-get is to apt-get purge postfix But then I won't have local mail delivery... What am I doing wrong??? -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <?> <?> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | \___/ <<<a href="mailto:jtwdyp@ttlc.net">jtwdyp@ttlc.net</a>>> -- xubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a></blockquote> <div> </div> <div>Ubuntu is better!</div></div>