Zooming in on postfix specifically when /var/spool/postfix is mounted on an overlayfs, postfix goes through the motions of starting but fails silently without logging anything, and /var/log/mail.log remains non- existant.
An attempt to reload postfix complains that postfix isn't running: root@smtp01:/var/log# postfix reload postfix: Postfix is running with backwards-compatible default settings postfix: See http://www.postfix.org/COMPATIBILITY_README.html for details postfix: To disable backwards compatibility use "postconf compatibility_level=2" and "postfix reload" postfix/postfix-script: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running root@smtp01:/var/log# postfix reload postfix: Postfix is running with backwards-compatible default settings postfix: See http://www.postfix.org/COMPATIBILITY_README.html for details postfix: To disable backwards compatibility use "postconf compatibility_level=2" and "postfix reload" postfix/postfix-script: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running Is overlayfs properly tested and supported on xenial? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1620744 Title: sssd/ntpd/postfix + overlayfs startup failure: Could not open file [/var/log/sssd/sssd.log]. Error: [13][Permission denied] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sssd/+bug/1620744/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
