On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Svavar Örn Eysteinsson wrote:
> Hi. I'm having a very strange problem with my firewall machine that includes
> the postfix
> system. I recently installed an Postfix RPM package on my firewall machine.
Where did you get the rpm?? If it is the one in powertools it is broken.
Suggest you get simon mudd's rpms and try them. There is a link on the
postfix page to them (www.postfix.org).
> I'v made all the configurations,
> un-installed sendmail and maked sure that nothings is running on port 25.
> I even port scanned my machine, and it only shows SSH.
>
> So the problem is when i start postfix up, with /etc/init.d/postfix start or
> at bootup it says "OK"
> but it says "master is stopped" when i do "/etc/init.d/postfix status". So i
> looked into the /var/log/maillog and it tells me :
>
> Sep 13 12:25:22 **** postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system
> Sep 13 12:25:22 **** postfix/master[1504]: fatal: bind INADDR ANY port 25:
> Address already in use.
I am not sure if this is caused by the broken rpm or not. If you are already
using simon's rpm suggest you post a postconf -n to get a better idea
what you have configured. IIRC I got something similar when I tried to
use the powertools rpm.
> Thats pretty stange as i have no deamon or process running on port 25.
>
> And i'v noticed one more thing. I opened up the /var/log/messages and it
> says :
>
> Sep 13 12:25:22 **** postfix: succeeded
> Sep 13 12:25:22 **** postfix: succeeded
That does not suprise me as IIRC the error occurs when incoming mail
is presented to postfix. I think it has something to do with some
files in /etc being linked to /var/spool/postfix/*. Regardless of
whether it works or not (it does not) this kinda defeats the purpose of chroot.
They also did not follow the postfix docs wrt creating a postfix user that
owns no other files. Instead they used the mail user. When I found these
2 problems I switched to Simon's postfix rpms and never looked back.
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