Wietse Venema wrote:
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.
mostly out of curiosity, but also for future reference - would deleting
those directories delete queued mail, or is that stored elsewhere?
Miles Fidelman
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