Please tell me how to find out that some other component has locked the pid files. I have done the following things to find out :-
[root@drmail1 ~]# /etc/init.d/postfix status master dead but pid file exists [root@drmail1 ~]# ps -ef | grep postfix root 1412 1 0 Jun07 ? 00:00:00 /usr/libexec/postfix/master postfix 1415 1412 0 Jun07 ? 00:00:00 qmgr -l -t fifo -u postfix 16286 1412 0 13:37 ? 00:00:00 pickup -l -t fifo -u root 16452 16416 0 13:52 pts/0 00:00:00 grep postfix [root@drmail1 ~]# Regards, Jayanta -----Original Message----- From: Nikolas Kallis [mailto:n...@nikolaskallis.com] Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2013 9:47 AM To: jayanta.gh...@cesc.co.in Subject: Re: Postfix master dead but pid file exists On 08/06/13 14:05, jayanta.gh...@cesc.co.in wrote: > Dear List, > > We have a mail server running on RHEL 6.2 with the following components :- > 1. Postfix > 2. Openldap > 3. Courier-authlib > 4. Courier-imap > 5. SASL > 6. Maildrop > > 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. > > Please help me resolve this issue. > > > > Thanks & Regards, > Jayanta Ghosh > It may be that one of the following components has read and locked the pid file.
