Topic: ssmtp won't install

[Pat Smit]

Hi,

I tried to install secure mail on SME 5.6 several times now, but whenever I use rpm -ivh --nodeps *.rpm
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event post-upgrade
somehow it wont install cvm-unix.
I tried everything but when i go to /etc/init.d it simply isn't there.
I tried downloading several times from http://www.pagefault.org/code/e-smith.shtml.
I does however install all the other rpm's

Please Help

Patrick
Boff Ltd.
London UK

[Bill Talcott]

An error message would be helpful...

Did you install cvm-0.11-1.i386.rpm, which e-smith-ssmtp and e-smith-cvm-unix both require?

[Pat Smit]

I did, I did anything that page said, there's no error message though.
Am I using RPM in the wrong way????

Pat

[Bill Talcott]

What does "rpm -q e-smith-cvm-unix" say? Have you tried removing (-e) the RPM and reinstalling, in case something got messed up somehow? "rpm -q cvm" also, to make sure that's installed properly. Where did you download cvm from?

You say there's no error message. So the only thing you're basing your comment on is that /etc/init.d/cvm-unix isn't there, right?

[Jon Blakely]

You are not by any chance trying to install

e-smith-cvm-unix-0.0.3-3dc.src.rpm

instead of

e-smith-cvm-unix-0.0.3-3dc.noarch.rpm

Jon

[Pat Smit]

Hi cheers for all your help, I tried you optoins and managed to install it.
However the problem I'm having now is that Outllook keeps asking to log in, I opened all ports on the router, am I missing something??
We've got it up and running on another server problem is that my collegue who set it up is in brazil for two weeks, so I have to figure this out myself.
When I type in /sbin/iptables -L on the working machine it say's all Input accept all.
When I do it on the machine that's giving me grief it comes up with a really long list of allows and denies for several port numbers.

Please help
Pat.(Newbie)
London (UK)

[Bill Talcott]

Pat Smit wrote:
>
> However the problem I'm having now is that Outllook keeps
> asking to log in, I opened all ports on the router, am I
> missing something??

Is it not accepting the username and password you enter? I had a weird problem with ours today. The remote office called and said they'd couldn't check their email since yesterday morning. I re-saved the config in Server Manager, and it started not accepting the password for SSMTP at all. I ended up removing all the RPMs, reinstalling them, issuing the post-upgrade command, and rebooting. Everything seems to be working again now...

[Pat Smit]

thing is it's on two diff. machines, I think it has something to do with port 465 being disabled in iptables

[Bill Talcott]

Bill Talcott wrote:
>
> Is it not accepting the username and password you enter?

Pat Smit wrote:
>
> thing is it's on two diff. machines, I think it has something
> to do with port 465 being disabled in iptables

Did you enable it in Server Manager?

[Pat Smit]

I did enable it in the server manager even all on public access
That's exactly it, it keeps asking for login name and password.

Cheers
Pat

[Pat Smit]

I did enable it in the server manager even all on public access
That's exactly it, it keeps asking for login name and password.

Cheers
Pat

[Damien Curtain]

Pat Smit wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I tried to install secure mail on SME 5.6 several times now,
> but whenever I use rpm -ivh --nodeps *.rpm
> /sbin/e-smith/signal-event post-upgrade
> somehow it wont install cvm-unix.
> I tried everything but when i go to /etc/init.d it simply
> isn't there.
> I tried downloading several times from
> http://www.pagefault.org/code/e-smith.shtml.
> I does however install all the other rpm's

Paste here the output to:

rpm -qa | egrep 'e-smith.*dc|cvm'

and

ls /var/lib/cvm/cvm-local.sock

The only reason you would ever use nodeps is to get around the fact that mitel released an older version of e-smith-packetfilters in their final 5.6 than in their last beta 5.6beta7. You should always try and install without nodeps and just ensure the only complaint is the version of e-smith-packetfilter installed on the system.

Also ensure your using the iptables version package(-sme5.6-)...

And that you downloaded and installed the binary cvm-unix rpm from http://untroubled.org...

And perhaps also look in the log files, /var/log/cvm-unix/current and /var/log/ssmtpfront-qmail/current
--
 Damien

[Pat Smit]

I found the problem, it cvm-0.11-1.i386.rpm didn't install, only after I downloaded it from a different source would it install.

Cheers for all your help

Pat

[Bill Talcott]

Pat Smit wrote:
>
> I found the problem, it cvm-0.11-1.i386.rpm didn't install,
> only after I downloaded it from a different source would it
> install.

Damien doesn't have it on his server. That's why I specifically asked about that file in my first reply...