Stefan Sczekalla a écrit : > Hi, > > my host is an Openbsd 4.2, Postfix 2.5.5 installed from source. > > I'm runnig postfix not chrooted > > Following various instructions I copied the /etc/posfix dirs, added a > new Spool-Path with dirs, > edited the new main.cf acooring to the new domain the instance is > responsible for, added the alternate_config_directories entry. > > When starting the second instance "postfix -c /etc/posfix2 start" > maillog logs: > > Oct 14 15:30:45 OpenBSD42 postfix/master[11315]: fatal: open lock file > /var/lib/postfix/master.lock: unable to set exclusive lock: Resource > temporarily unavailable > > any ideas ?
you also need a specific data_directory. so create a new dir and specify it in the main.cf of the new instance. PS. Note that the "tradition" for BSD systems is to use /var/db instead of /var/lib.