Given that I use postgrey on my servers, and that I will upgrade to 14.04 LTS when it comes out, I decided to try some preventative maintenance and see if postgrey is really broken on 13.10.
I was unable to reproduce your problem: $ sudo apt-get install postgrey $ ps $(cat /var/run/postgrey.pid) PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 17720 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/postgrey --pidfile=/var/run/postgrey.pid --daemonize --inet=10023 $ sudo lsof -i TCP:10023 COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME /usr/sbin 17720 postgrey 6u IPv4 2248799 0t0 TCP localhost:10023 (LISTEN) $ less /var/log/syslog Nov 19 09:56:41 platonas postgrey[17720]: Process Backgrounded Nov 19 09:56:41 platonas postgrey[17720]: 2013/11/19-09:56:41 postgrey (type Net::Server::Multiplex) starting! pid(17720) Nov 19 09:56:41 platonas postgrey[17720]: Resolved [localhost]:10023 to [127.0.0.1]:10023, IPv4 Nov 19 09:56:41 platonas postgrey[17720]: Binding to TCP port 10023 on host 127.0.0.1 with IPv4 Nov 19 09:56:41 platonas postgrey[17720]: Setting gid to "139 139" Nov 19 09:56:41 platonas postgrey[17720]: Setting uid to "127" Nov 19 09:59:45 platonas postgrey[17720]: 2013/11/19-09:59:45 Server closing! Hm. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1252441 Title: postgrey not starting after release upgrade To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/postgrey/+bug/1252441/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs