On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 09:56:18AM -0800, SW wrote: > I had a look through the entire maillog for 27935 but all I could see was: > > running: PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin; export PATH; (echo cont; echo > where; sleep 8640000) | gdb /usr/local/libexec/postfix/smtpd 27935 > 2>&1 >/usr/local/etc/postfix/smtpd.27935.log & sleep 5
Indeed the mystery process was traced by a debugger. Perhaps such processes can be reported to master more than once. > I'm not sure what makes this server quirky but to move forward should I > remove the debugging? Is this what is causing Postfix to stop now? You should remove the "-D" flag from smtpd entry in master.cf and restart Postfix. -- Viktor.