Package: postgrey
Version: 1.36-3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Dear Maintainer,
The default init script that comes with Postgrey on Debian 9 fails to start
after a reboot. The installer creates /var/run/postgrey and writes its pid
there but /var/run is a tmpfs file system and so on a reboot /var/run/postgrey
ceases to exist. The init script for Postgrey does not attempt to create
/var/run/postgrey and just fails to start when it can't write to
/var/run/postgrey. When postgrey fails to start then Postfix starts complaining
that it is misconfigured and begins bouncing emails. I was able to fix this by
adding these lines to the do_start function in the init script:
# Assure that /var/run/postgrey exists
[ -d /var/run/postgrey ] || mkdir -p /var/run/postgrey
if [ "$DAEMON_USER" != "root" ]; then
chown "$DAEMON_USER" /var/run/postgrey
fi
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.2
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages postgrey depends on:
ii adduser 3.115
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.61
pn libberkeleydb-perl <none>
pn libnet-dns-perl <none>
pn libnet-server-perl <none>
pn libnetaddr-ip-perl <none>
ii perl 5.24.1-3+deb9u2
ii ucf 3.0036
Versions of packages postgrey recommends:
pn libnet-rblclient-perl <none>
pn libparse-syslog-perl <none>
ii postfix 3.1.6-0+deb9u1
postgrey suggests no packages.
