RE: Trying to understand error message in logs

2019-10-11 Thread Fazzina, Angelo
y of Connecticut,  ITS, SSG, Server Systems 860-486-9075 -Original Message- From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org On Behalf Of Thilo Molitor Sent: Friday, October 11, 2019 3:14 PM To: Postfix users Subject: Re: Trying to understand error message in logs ...and check permissions on *all*

Re: Trying to understand error message in logs

2019-10-11 Thread Thilo Molitor
...and check permissions on *all* the directories in the path leading to the lockfile for proper access (at least eXecute permission) and no conflicting ACLs (as viktor already wrote). --tmolitor Am Freitag, 11. Oktober 2019, 15:00:36 CEST schrieb Viktor Dukhovni: > Reboot your system, and tr

Re: Trying to understand error message in logs

2019-10-11 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
Reboot your system, and try again. > On Oct 11, 2019, at 2:49 PM, Fazzina, Angelo wrote: > > Hi, thanks for the tip about checking SELINUX. Sadly no change when testing > openssl command with SELINUX off. TLS has nothing to with this. The SMTP server is unable to lock a file that is used to

RE: Trying to understand error message in logs

2019-10-11 Thread Fazzina, Angelo
: Friday, October 11, 2019 11:55 AM To: Postfix users Subject: Re: Trying to understand error message in logs Fazzina, Angelo: > Hi, thank you for trying to help. > I hope this answers your question. > > [root@mail6 pid]# pwd > /var/spool/postfix/pid > [root@mail6 pid]# ll >

Re: Trying to understand error message in logs

2019-10-11 Thread Wietse Venema
Fazzina, Angelo: > Hi, thank you for trying to help. > I hope this answers your question. > > [root@mail6 pid]# pwd > /var/spool/postfix/pid > [root@mail6 pid]# ll > total 4 > -rw---. 1 root root 0 Oct 6 22:14 inet.smtp ...and so on... Postfix daemons open lockfiles while running as root. I

RE: Trying to understand error message in logs

2019-10-11 Thread Fazzina, Angelo
, Angelo Cc: postfix-users@postfix.org Subject: Re: Trying to understand error message in logs > Oct 11 11:16:08 mail6 postfix/submission/smtpd[18091]: fatal: open lock file > pid/inet.submission: cannot open file: Permission denied This would be the clue, and according to the docs, pid fil

Re: Trying to understand error message in logs

2019-10-11 Thread Marty Lee
> Oct 11 11:16:08 mail6 postfix/submission/smtpd[18091]: fatal: open lock file > pid/inet.submission: cannot open file: Permission denied This would be the clue, and according to the docs, pid files are written to the queue directory by default. > queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix so - is th