[postfix] postfix instead of sendmail (and happy new year)

[Hervaen]

Le Samedi 3 Janvier 2004 14:09, Hervaen a écrit :
> Le Mercredi 28 Janvier 2004 13:10, Sheedee a écrit :
> > On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 12:58:56 +0100, Hervaen <hervaen at free.fr> wrote:
> > > Le sam 03/01/2004 à 12:31, Sheedee a écrit :
> > >> On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 12:29:16 +0100, Hervaen <hervaen at free.fr> wrote:
> > >> > Hi
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > >> > I don't like sendmail and would like install postfix, I have tried
> > >> > several times but I don't have any succes to put the directory
> > >>
> > >> "postfix"
> > >>
> > >> > in /usr/lib, so it's impossible to start postfix
>
> 		[.....................................]
>
> > I'm sorry, but still I don't understand, what exactly didn't work. Try
> > writing all the commands that you used to install and the errors that
> > appeared in the order you wrote/received them. And BTW english is neither
> > my language ;)
>
> Before to reply I made another time the same command. to can install
> Postfix I removed sendmail, mutt and fetchmail
>
> I installed postfix with redhat-config-packages (and before with command
> line rpm -ivh postfix-2 ........rpm)
>
> after configuration of main.cf I use the command line
> "/usr/sbin/postfix start"
> Ihave this reply
> "postfix: fatal: chdir(/usr/lib/postfix): No such file or directory"
>
> I made LOCATE postfix and read that the directory /usr/lib/postfix is in
> /usr/libexec/postfix

I made a cp -r /usr/libexec/postfix --> /usr/lib/

and after 

/usr/sbin postfix   start

 and now it run but I don't think it's the right way

Hervaen