I thought about that as well, I stopped all postfix processes, checking via ps -ef | grep postfix to ensure no other processes where running. I had a look at the /etc/init.d/openprotect start section, revealing that the start up script calls this:
/usr/sbin/postfix start 2 -c /etc/postfix.in /usr/sbin/postfix start 2 -c /etc/postfix I then ran that manually. The first line start up postfix, the second line generates an error in /var/log/mail/error "postfix is already running" I have tried this on two mandrake server, mandrake 7.2 and mandrake 9.1 with the same result. I ran the line : postfix -c /etc/postfix.in start; postfix start postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system postfix/postfix-script: fatal: the Postfix mail system is already running Press any key to continue... -----Original Message----- From: S Karthikeyan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 10:41 PM To: Steve Lawrence Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Opencomputing-openprotect] Can't get 2 postfix process to start. Dear Steve Lawrence, > Hi All. I installed openprotect and everything seemed to work, but then > I stopped getting mail. The queue was starting to back up, and so I did > some investigating. Turns out that when the /etc/init.d/openprotect > start command is run, the first postfix daemon runs, then the second > does not. An error appears in /var/log/mail/warnings.log that postfix is > already running. > > What have I done wrong that postfix is allowed only one process to run? > > Thanks in advance! > > Steve. Either, the original postfix is running, or the init script isn't correctly configured. Do a "postfix stop; postfix -c /etc/postfix.in stop". Then, run "openprotect start" and check whether it is working now. If yes, no problem, just disable /etc/init.d/postfix or whatever init script you used for starting postfix before installing OpenProtect. If not, run "postfix -c /etc/postfix.in start; postfix start" and check again. If it works now, then the init script is wrongly configured. cheers, Karthikeyan, S. -- S.Karthikeyan | Ph: +91 (0) 44 52166646 Fax: +91 (0) 44 52075597 Opencomputing Technologies | http://opencompt.com Server Side E-Mail Protection.
