On Sat, Jun 08, 2013 at 09:35:15AM +0530, jayanta.gh...@cesc.co.in wrote:
> The problem is the postfix status is showing ?master dead but pid file
> exists? after sometime. The main.cf file and the output of postconf ?d is
> attached herein. I have also gone through the log files but could not find
> any errors.
This is a non-problem. There is no reasonable expectation that
the pid file is sure to be deleted when Postfix is not running.
Perhaps you can describe your real goal, why you are trying to look
at the pid file, rather than the non-problem (the pid file not
meeting naive expectations).
Are you trying to monitor system health? Stop Postfix? ...
--
Viktor.
