---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> Reply-To: Postfix users <postfix-users@postfix.org> Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 13:08:31 -0400 (EDT)
>Len Conrad: >> FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE >> >> mail_version = 2.8-20100323 >> >> postfix start >> >> or >> >> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postfix start >> >> followed immediately by >> >> postfix stop >> >> gives >> >> postfix/postfix-script: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running >> >> ps auxw| egrep master >> >> ... nothing. > >So, what has changed? > > Wietse /change/ DUNNO I found that pf, packet filter was activated in rc.conf.local, but no rules in place. deactivated it. the machine had over 1 year uptime (it's our syslog server), but I rebooted anyway. no change. Master refuses quietly to stay resident. master's last maillog words are still: postfix/master[2137]: setugid: uid 0 gid 0 and then silence. Len
