outgoingips for qmail

binis · 01-31-2011, 09:56 AM

hello everybody,

I have qmail 1.03 runing under centos with 3 IP's but qmail use the primary IP (eth0) ,I found in other forum that i must patch qmail with outgoingips.patch , and recompile qmail source ,but i'am afraid to lose controle of the server ,i'm not pro in LINUX , I need your help to show me how do it

thanks

bathory · 02-01-2011, 04:52 AM

Hi and welcome to LQ,

First of all you should know how qmail was installed in your system. There are various ways to install qmail, like Qmailtoaster, QmailRocks etc, that are already heavily patched and maybe the outgoingips patch is already applied, or it cannot be applied. Better check the documentation about your qmail installation for details.

Anyway, to test if your qmail can be patched, copy the sources directory somewhere else (like /tmp) and apply the patch:

Code:

cp -rp qmail-1.03 /tmp
cd /tmp
patch -p0 < /path/to/qmail-1.03_outgoingips.patch

and see if it fails

binis · 02-01-2011, 05:10 AM

First thank you for your response to my request

that's what I did:
-I have downloaded the source of qmail-1.03
-I 've downloaded the patch qmail-1.03_outgoingips.patch
-I 've run the command you told me
and here is the result:

Code:

patch-p0 <qmail-1.03_outgoingips.patch
patching file qmail-1.03/qmail-control.9
patching file qmail-1.03/qmail-remote.8
patching file qmail-1.03/qmail-remote.c
patching file qmail-1.03/qmail-showctl.c
patching file qmail-1.03/remoteinfo.c
patching file qmail-1.03/timeoutconn.c

I tried to compile the source qmail-1.03 but I could not:

Quote:

# Make
->>>>
. / Load auto-str substdio.a error.a str.a
/ Usr / bin / ld: errno: TLS definition in / lib64/libc.so.6 section. Tbss mismatches non-TLS reference in substdio.a (substdo.o)
/ Lib64/libc.so.6: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status running
make: *** [auto-str] Error 1

and now what do I do?

thank you in advance

bathory · 02-01-2011, 05:59 AM

You didn't pay attention to what I said. I told you to find out how qmail was installed in a first place, because it could be already patched against lots of things. Note that qmail-1.03 came out in 1998 and since then there are only patches that are used to keep it sort of "up-to-date".

I told you to copy the sources of the current running qmail (as a backup) and apply the patch to them. What you've done is that you patched a vanilla qmail source and of course patching was successful. If you install this patched qmail you may lose any other modifications done to the current running qmail

If you're absolutely sure that you're running a vanilla qmail (which I doubt) you can go ahead and install it, running

Code:

make setup check

binis · 02-01-2011, 06:12 AM

sorry if I have not paid attention to what you've already said I'm newbie, but I work on a dedicated server pre-installed, and I can not find the source of qmail installed on the server, if you can tell me where I can find this source?

thank you in advance

bathory · 02-01-2011, 06:47 AM

How should I know?
You must contact tech support, tell them what you want to do and they will help you on this

Regards

binis · 02-01-2011, 06:50 AM

thank you so much for your help