Charles Marcus: > On 2013-06-08 8:26 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: > > [the same error on the virtual socket disappeared after a while] > > > > The Postfix warranty does not cover file system corruption, so > > I can only provide generic system repair suggestions. > > > > If Solaris or *BSD, boot single-user mode and fsck the file system. > > If Linux, do whatever your distro requires to force a full fsck. > > > > If fsck does not resolve the issue, then the file system repair > > program messed up the UNIX-domain sockets. Stop Postfix, remove the > > 'private' and 'public' queue directories, and restart Postfix. > > > > If that doesn't help look for a spare computer system. > > Thanks Wietse... but just to confirm... > > If I delete these two directories, postfix will recreate them > automatically when I start it back up?
Yes. The "postfix start" command invokes "postfix check" which creates missing directories. Wietse