On Wed, Feb 09 2011, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:03:36 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > >> > The postfix issue is separate and needs a glibc downgrade to fix. >> >> I am not sure I understand. I did the glibc upgrade and have not >> downgraded. I run postfix and my mail is coming and going. I had >> thought/hoped that postfix does work with the new glibc if you don't >> do prelinking (which is my configuration: 2-13 glibc, postfix, no >> prelink). >> >> If glibc-2.13 kills postfix w/o prelinking then perhaps, I am just >> lucky and my overall configuration is such that it "works for me". > > I think you're lucky, as is Volker. A number of people, me included, > have had Postfix fail with > > postfix/local[4452]: fatal: unable to determine open file limit > postfix/master[4001]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/local pid 4452 > exit status 1 postfix/master[4001]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/local: > bad command startup -- throttling > > Prelinking is not involved, so it must be down to how you have > configured Postfix, probably the local delivery settings.
Thanks neil for the explanation and thank you my lucky stars for sparing me this mail failure. allan
