Re: Postfix master dead but pid file exists
Jayanta Ghosh: Dear List, The problem is the postfix stops running after sometime and the postfix status is showing master dead but pid file exists . The main.cf file and PLEASE FILE A REDHAT BUG REPORT. THIS WORKS PROPERLY IN POSTFIX AS DISTRIBUTED FROM POSTFIX.ORG. Wietse
Re: Postfix master dead but pid file exists
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 01:08:12PM +0530, Jayanta Ghosh wrote: The problem is the postfix stops running after sometime This is the problem you should pursue: Why does Postfix stop running? For this, you need to read your logs. and the postfix status is showing master dead but pid file exists. This is a non-issue you should ignore. the output of postconf -d is attached herein. This is unnecessary. I have also gone through the log files but could not find any errors. You need to look at the logs more carefully. Sometimes error messages are sent to a different log file than regular messages. Find any and all logging from postfix/master. Find out when mail delivery stopped. What was happening around the time the last few messages were logged... -- Viktor.
RE: Postfix master dead but pid file exists
Please tell me how to find out that some other component has locked the pid files. I have done the following things to find out :- [root@drmail1 ~]# /etc/init.d/postfix status master dead but pid file exists [root@drmail1 ~]# ps -ef | grep postfix root 1412 1 0 Jun07 ?00:00:00 /usr/libexec/postfix/master postfix 1415 1412 0 Jun07 ?00:00:00 qmgr -l -t fifo -u postfix 16286 1412 0 13:37 ?00:00:00 pickup -l -t fifo -u root 16452 16416 0 13:52 pts/000:00:00 grep postfix [root@drmail1 ~]# Regards, Jayanta -Original Message- From: Nikolas Kallis [mailto:n...@nikolaskallis.com] Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2013 9:47 AM To: jayanta.gh...@cesc.co.in Subject: Re: Postfix master dead but pid file exists On 08/06/13 14:05, jayanta.gh...@cesc.co.in wrote: Dear List, We have a mail server running on RHEL 6.2 with the following components :- 1.Postfix 2.Openldap 3.Courier-authlib 4.Courier-imap 5.SASL 6.Maildrop The problem is the postfix status is showing master dead but pid file exists after sometime. The main.cf file and the output of postconf d is attached herein. I have also gone through the log files but could not find any errors. Please help me resolve this issue. Thanks Regards, Jayanta Ghosh It may be that one of the following components has read and locked the pid file.
Re: Postfix master dead but pid file exists
jayanta.gh...@cesc.co.in: Please tell me how to find out that some other component has locked the pid files. I have done the following things to find out :- [root@drmail1 ~]# /etc/init.d/postfix status master dead but pid file exists Please file a bug report with REDHAT. They have broken Postfix status reports. I am not responsible for bugs that other people add. With Postfix as released by me: # postfix status postfix/postfix-script: the Postfix mail system is running: PID: 1205 # ps ax | grep master | grep -v grep 1205 ?? Ss 0:14.23 /usr/libexec/postfix/master -w And on a system running multiple Postfix instances: # postfix status postfix/postfix-script: the Postfix mail system is running: PID: 1366 postfix-m1/postfix-script: the Postfix mail system is running: PID: 1601 # ps ax | grep master | grep -v grep 1366 ?? Is 0:14.40 /usr/libexec/postfix/master -w 1601 ?? Is 0:31.61 /usr/libexec/postfix/master -w Wietse
Re: Postfix master dead but pid file exists
On Sat, Jun 08, 2013 at 09:35:15AM +0530, jayanta.gh...@cesc.co.in wrote: The problem is the postfix status is showing ?master dead but pid file exists? after sometime. The main.cf file and the output of postconf ?d is attached herein. I have also gone through the log files but could not find any errors. This is a non-problem. There is no reasonable expectation that the pid file is sure to be deleted when Postfix is not running. Perhaps you can describe your real goal, why you are trying to look at the pid file, rather than the non-problem (the pid file not meeting naive expectations). Are you trying to monitor system health? Stop Postfix? ... -- Viktor.
