On 5/16/24 18:40, Alex wrote:
Hi,
I have a fedora38 server with postfix-3.7.9 (although this problem has
existed for a long time) that fails to start because I believe the server
has multiple interfaces.
ifconfig shows just the primary ethernet interface, but "ip addr" shows the
rest. There are five total interfaces in this multi-instance postfix config.
Here are the related boot messages from journalctl -xb0:
postfix[1360]: egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
postfix[1371]: fatal: parameter inet_interfaces: no local interface found
for 130.250.NNN.197
postfix[1374]: fatal: parameter inet_interfaces: no local interface found
for 130.250.NNN.198
postfix[1375]: fatal: parameter inet_interfaces: no local interface found
for 130.250.NNN.199
postfix[1376]: fatal: parameter inet_interfaces: no local interface found
for 130.250.NNN.200
postfix[1379]: fatal: parameter inet_interfaces: no local interface found
for 130.250.NNN.201
Each of the IPs correspond to a different postfix instance.
After the system boots, I can start postfix successfully with just "service
postfix start".
Since it has systemd as an option and the postfix service should know to
wait for networking, why not use that to run it?
systemctl unmask postfix
systemctl enable postfix
systemctl start postfix
After that it should start automatically on boot.
Is it perhaps trying to start before networking is available? This would be
odd because the problem has persisted for quite a while, and I would have
thought something like that would have been fixed long ago.
Perhaps related to the difference between ifconfig and ip? Where is the
egrep coming from? I don't see it in the systemd file:
# ls -l /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/postfix.service
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Jan 24 2023
/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/postfix.service ->
/usr/lib/systemd/system/postfix.service
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