Guillaume Rousse wrote on Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 12:47:00PM +0200 : > Ainsi parlait Vendredi 26 Avril 2002 14:00, Yves Duret : > [..] > > updates-alternatives seems to be quite bugy. > Sad but true :-(
It works with my simple usage. I didn't try the long version that's in the postin scripts. I'll admit it now. I didn't look to see if they were there. That's twice now regarding postin and postun scripts that I've assumed...and both times it's only made me look like ... :-) > > any other reports for those has installed postfix ? > Yes :-) > > You should restart postfix after upgrade to avoid this nasty error > Apr 18 12:28:20 silbermann postfix/smtpd[7674]: fatal: connect #11 to > subsystem public/cleanup: No such file or directory > > And yesterday, i had this one too for some unknown reason: > Apr 24 12:38:20 silbermann postfix/qmgr[2106]: fatal: scan_dir_push: open > directory deferred: No such file or directory I found that (if I remember correctly) cleanup and pickup were two lost processes that weren't being killed with 'service postfix stop'. I had to manually kill them and then postfix started properly. From my history: 839 service postfix start 840 ps ax 841 service postfix stop 842 ps ax 843 kill 7442 7461 844 ps ax 845 service postfix start Quoting /var/log/mail/errors: Apr 25 13:18:15 fiji postfix/smtpd[27185]: fatal: open lock file pid/inet.smtp: cannot create file exclusively: No such file or directory Apr 25 13:19:16 fiji postfix/smtpd[27234]: fatal: open lock file pid/inet.smtp: cannot create file exclusively: No such file or directory Apr 25 13:20:17 fiji postfix/smtpd[27245]: fatal: open lock file pid/inet.smtp: cannot create file exclusively: No such file or directory Apr 25 13:21:18 fiji postfix/smtpd[27257]: fatal: open lock file pid/inet.smtp: cannot create file exclusively: No such file or directory Apr 25 13:21:21 fiji postfix/postfix-script: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running Apr 25 13:21:24 fiji postfix/master[27375]: fatal: bind INADDR_ANY port 25: Address already in use Apr 25 13:21:32 fiji postfix/postfix-script: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running Blue skies... Todd -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn Cooker Version mandrake-release-8.3-0.2mdk Kernel 2.4.18-12mdk
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