Viktor Dukhovni:
> > [root@mail2 ~]# bash -c "ls -ld /var{,/lib{,/postfix{,/master.lock}}}"
> > drwxr-xr-x. 20 root root 4096 Mar 2 2017 /var
> > drwxr-xr-x. 29 root root 4096 Sep 7 03:46 /var/lib
> > drwxr--r--. 2 postfix postfix 4096 Sep 7 16:07 /var/lib/postfix
> > -rw-r--r--. 1 postfix postfix 0 Sep 7 16:07
> > /var/lib/postfix/master.lock
>
> And yet the funny "." characters remain...
They persist even if SeLinux is disabled. Example:
# ls -ld /var{,/lib{,/postfix{,/master.lock}}}
drwxr-xr-x. 22 root root 4096 Sep 5 18:17 /var
drwxr-xr-x. 63 root root 4096 Sep 5 18:17 /var/lib
drwx------. 2 postfix root 4096 Jul 30 16:53 /var/lib/postfix
-rw-------. 1 postfix postfix 33 Jul 28 08:14 /var/lib/postfix/master.lock
Note that this file contains a PID, whereas on the broken system,
the master daemon aborts before it can lock and update the file.
You might want to remove that file, and fsck the file system, before
starting Postfix.
Wietse
