On 22.06.2009 13:02, Marcin Niskiewicz wrote: > I noticed that when someone makes an error in master.cf > <http://master.cf> (for example write anything at the beginning of the > file) and then restart postfix there is a problem: > > postfix is stopped (that's ok), then it should be started but it isn't > (in log something like > postfix/master[1649]: fatal: /etc/postfix/master.cf <http://master.cf>: > line 4: bad transport type: > ==========================================================================) > and there is no error shown on console ( echo $? - shows 0 ) > > and then when we try to restart (or start) postfix again - we can't - > unless we delete /var/lib/init.d/started/postfix file (it's not deleted > while restarting) > > is it a bug or we're doing sth wrong?!
Postfix init script just calls postfix(1) which calls postfix-script which calls master(8). Exit codes do not get back to the terminal. Use postfix status to check whether the mail system is running. -- Eray
