Gentoo can be annoying, sometimes
Sunday, August 20th, 2006The next best thing to getting ran over by an 18th wheeler would be having a gentoo baselayout update breaking havoc over your mail server.

I have no idea why, but Courier, which is the mail server suite I use, in conjunction with DJ Bernstein’s qmail and vpopmail, all this lovely stuff keeps breaking all the time on Gentoo. I’ve had courier hand mask’ed since they kept screwing up.
Now, the lastest baselayout prevents authdaemond from starting, and leaves no evidence in the logs. The Gentoo bugzilla is confusing, they say it’s Courier’s fault, and that they need maintainers, and that uh.. I don’t know, I’m not sure. They sound like they expect the problem to fix itself, or that it will magically occur at some time.
Gentoo is definitely not something you should run on a production server, sometimes.
Update: Well, updating to the lastest courier and removing /etc/init.d/authdaemond seems to have fixed it. The ones who are having problems are actually those who are running the “unstable” courier, with ~x86 flags. I wish you guys luck.

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