Re: postfix won't start, no messages anywhere

2010-11-19 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 09:55:28PM +0100, Jeroen Geilman wrote: > On 11/19/2010 05:56 PM, Len Conrad wrote: >> I did say "fixed by running postfix-install", wasn't clear that >> postfix-install fixed postfix fail-to-run problem. >> >> fsck or whatever Linux RH does to fix filesystems apparently c

Re: postfix won't start, no messages anywhere

2010-11-19 Thread Jeroen Geilman
On 11/19/2010 05:56 PM, Len Conrad wrote: I did say "fixed by running postfix-install", wasn't clear that postfix-install fixed postfix fail-to-run problem. fsck or whatever Linux RH does to fix filesystems apparently converted "private/scan=" socket to "private/scan" dir, into which we got 21

Re: postfix won't start, no messages anywhere

2010-11-19 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Len Conrad wrote: Len Conrad: At 09:12 AM 11/19/2010, you wrote: Len Conrad: The scan dir ownership was fixed by running postfix-install. not sure how another guy detected that scan was bad ownership, since that finding was not logged after I moved the scan/* msgs out. I've moved the 2176 ms

Re: postfix won't start, no messages anywhere

2010-11-19 Thread Wietse Venema
Len Conrad: > I did say "fixed by running postfix-install", wasn't clear that > postfix-install fixed postfix fail-to-run problem. For the record, I take no responsibility for what happens when Postfix is run on a corrupted file system. Just like I take no responsibility for what happens when Post

Re: postfix won't start, no messages anywhere

2010-11-19 Thread Len Conrad
>Len Conrad: >> At 09:12 AM 11/19/2010, you wrote: >> >Len Conrad: >> >> The scan dir ownership was fixed by running postfix-install. not >> >> sure how another guy detected that scan was bad ownership, since >> >> that finding was not logged after I moved the scan/* msgs out. >> >> >> >> I've mo

Re: postfix won't start, no messages anywhere

2010-11-19 Thread Wietse Venema
Len Conrad: > At 09:12 AM 11/19/2010, you wrote: > >Len Conrad: > >> The scan dir ownership was fixed by running postfix-install. not > >> sure how another guy detected that scan was bad ownership, since > >> that finding was not logged after I moved the scan/* msgs out. > >> > >> I've moved the 2

Re: postfix won't start, no messages anywhere

2010-11-19 Thread Len Conrad
At 09:12 AM 11/19/2010, you wrote: >Len Conrad: >> The scan dir ownership was fixed by running postfix-install. not >> sure how another guy detected that scan was bad ownership, since >> that finding was not logged after I moved the scan/* msgs out. >> >> I've moved the 2176 msgs back to scan and

Re: postfix won't start, no messages anywhere

2010-11-19 Thread Wietse Venema
Len Conrad: > The scan dir ownership was fixed by running postfix-install. not > sure how another guy detected that scan was bad ownership, since > that finding was not logged after I moved the scan/* msgs out. > > I've moved the 2176 msgs back to scan and set them to postfix:wheel, > but there th

Re: postfix won't start, no messages anywhere

2010-11-19 Thread Len Conrad
At 06:09 AM 11/19/2010, you wrote: >Len Conrad: >> >> Had a power failure on a linux RHEL and postfix. disk got messed up a >> little bit but linux seemed to fix it up. all apps and services are running >> except postfix. >> >> I've had this problem before on another machine, and it was permi

Re: postfix won't start, no messages anywhere

2010-11-19 Thread Wietse Venema
Len Conrad: > > Had a power failure on a linux RHEL and postfix. disk got messed up a little > bit but linux seemed to fix it up. all apps and services are running except > postfix. > > I've had this problem before on another machine, and it was permissions. > > postfix set-permissions >

postfix won't start, no messages anywhere

2010-11-18 Thread Len Conrad
Had a power failure on a linux RHEL and postfix. disk got messed up a little bit but linux seemed to fix it up. all apps and services are running except postfix. I've had this problem before on another machine, and it was permissions. postfix set-permissions ... doesn't solve it postfix