Hi,

I need to run a separate instance of postfix in order to accommodate a FAX server. I created the directory /etc/postfix/fax and copied and customized the main.cf and master.cf files from the default directory to this new directory. I also copied post-install, postfix-files and postfix-script. I also crated the directory /var/spool/postfix/pid/fax for the pid files and explicitly declared it in main.cf (process_id_directory = /var/spool/postfix/pid/fax). When I do an initial attempt to start the postfix instance, I get a message that postfix is already running. Note, also, that the message says postfix/postfix-script rather than postfix/fax/postfix-script.

[r...@neskowin ~]# postfix -c /etc/postfix/fax start
postfix/postfix-script: fatal: the Postfix mail system is already running
[r...@neskowin ~]#

I'm running Postfix 2.2.10. Is there something more I need to do in the setup to get this second instance running?

Thanks,

Rob Tanner
Linfield College
McMinnville, Oregon









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