Messed up my virtualmin install :(

Virtualmin
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I seem to have messed up my Virtualmin install :frowning:

I needed to upgrade Postgres, and did so following the guide here: http://www.davidghedini.com/pg/entry/install_postgresql_9_on_centos but ‘psql’ kept reporting the old version. So I saw a blog post suggesting removing postgres and trying again, but on doing so yum decided to remove virtualmin-base as well - which I reinstalled straight away.

However, now my virtualmin install seems messed up. First the theme was gone, but I turned it back on via webmin, now postfix is broke. First it reported it wasn’t there so I ‘yum install postfix’ but it doesn’t seem to work (can no longer send emails) although it now shows up in webmin > servers.

Is there a way to reinstall Virtualmin over my current install to ‘fix’ anything that might have broken?

Or, does anyone know what is removed/broken when yum removes virtualmin-base?
And how to fix it bit by bit?

Sorry to be a pain - any help appreciated.

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To my knoledge, nothing exists to fix what breaks in Virtualmin itself.
Feel fre to correct me on that from those of you who have used Virtualmin far longer than I have, but even so, I doubt it highly.
The installation script is not designed to fix, upgrade, or anything else to an existing installation, that much I do know as fact. Most stuff must be done within Virtualmin itself afterwords.

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Thanks for the reply Khinton. Does anyone know what actually breaks when yum removes virtualmin-base?

I’ve seen a number of threads here where it’s happened, so I guess someone somewhere might have some clues (well, I hope!).

I can send email from within webmin, but not via SMTP. I can not recieve emails either, so I guess that means dovcot is broken too :frowning:

Sites using php and mysql seem to be working ok tho.