On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:56:09 +0200 Marcin Niskiewicz <mniskiew...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/6/22 Eray Aslan <eray.as...@caf.com.tr> > > > 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 > > > > Thanks for the answer. > But as I said it doesn't start (there's no process, command postfix > status shows > postfix/postfix-script: the Postfix mail system is not running > but still /etc/init.d/postfix status show it's started)... > > Soooo it is stopped but the status of the service is wrongly updated > (file /var/lib/init.d/started/postfix exists) > > > regards > nichu Try # /etc/init.d/postfix zap to reset the service to the stoped state(since it is not running), and # /etc/init.d/postfix start to start it again regards yiannis -- '; .! /X\__/X\ ; ; 7%;` %'; `. . (. Z Z .; ; ;..'```'''.. T '/ ; " .. '% '^'; ' . . . '"".==.% `# $. V \ .% _./%&$'`\%%}_/ <\__)x" <\_)x
