---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org>
Reply-To: Postfix users <postfix-users@postfix.org>
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 15:34:27 -0400 (EDT)
>Len Conrad:
>> >> 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.
>
>Try running the master under ktrace:
>
>ktrace /some/where/master -d
>kdump
>
>My speculation is that some library (or the master executable)
>got corrupted.
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the end of kdump :
18781 master CALL setuid(0)
18781 master RET setuid 0
18781 master CALL gettimeofday(0xbfbfde78,0)
18781 master RET gettimeofday 0
18781 master CALL getpid
18781 master RET getpid 18781/0x495d
18781 master CALL sendto(0x3,0xbfbfdebe,0x81,0,0,0)
18781 master GIO fd 3 wrote 129 bytes
"<18>May 20 14:51:40 postfix/master[18781]: fatal: open lock file
/var/db/postfix/master.lock: cannot open file: Permission denied"
18781 master RET sendto 129/0x81
18781 master CALL nanosleep(0xbfbfebc8,0xbfbfebc0)
18781 master RET nanosleep 0
18781 master CALL exit(0x1)
Just to get something going, I've chmod -R 777 /var/db/postfix, but no change.
Len
