On 2/16/2011 10:21 PM, sunhux G wrote:
Sorry for the lack of info in earlier post.
Think the main issue is I can't even start up postfix :
# postfix set-permissions
[root@etc]# postfix start
postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system
[root@ etc]# postfix reload
postfix/postfix-script: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running
I googed for "master.lock unable exclusive lock" but it's mostly on
MacOS & editing php.ini doesn't help:
Relevant error from /var/log/maillog
Feb 17 11:15:20 hostname postfix/postfix-script[29383]: starting the
Postfix mail system
Feb 17 11:15:20 hostname postfix/master[29384]: fatal: open lock file
/var/lib/postfix/master.lock: unable to set exclusive lock: Resource
temporarily unavailable
[SNIP]
This would indicate some process, perhaps an earlier attempt at running
postfix, already has the lock.
What is the output of fuser as below? Follows is a literal interaction
from my installation
# ls -l /var/lib/postfix/master.lock
-rw------- 1 postfix postfix 17 Feb 7 11:08 /var/lib/postfix/master.lock
# fuser /var/lib/postfix/master.lock
/var/lib/postfix/master.lock: 15590
# ps auwwx | grep 15590
root 15590 0.0 0.0 6624 1868 ? Ss Feb07 0:33
/usr/libexec/postfix/master
-Daniel
