Ive been running postgrey for years without any problems but today I
noticed I hadn't gotten email for awhile and realized upon investigation
that postgrey wasnt running so postfix was rejecting mail.
What's maddening is that I can run postgrey quite happily from the command
line in the foregorund, but if I try to use the init script or otherwise
try to daemonize it, it silently crashes:
# /etc/init.d/postgrey start
* Starting Postgrey ...
[ ok ]
# pgrep -af postgrey
Its not running.
The logs dont show anything useful. If I ask the init script to be verbose
I see this:
# /etc/init.d/postgrey start --verbose
* Caching service dependencies ...
[ ok ]
* Starting Postgrey ...
* start-stop-daemon: fopen `/var/run/postgrey.pid': No such file or
directory
[ ok ]
#
which doesn't make much sense.
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Ajai Khattri
Systems Admin | Web / Mobile Developer
