Wietse Venema:
> Eliezer Croitoru:
> > OS:Gentoo latest built with kernel 3.2.1 with hardened profile
> > POSTFIX: v 2.9.1
> > when i'm configuring on master.cf some listening to port on ip address
> > that doesn't exist on any interface such as for communicating with
> > amavis (as if my ip is 192.168.0.20 and i will put 192.168.0.21:25 )
> > postfix will try to bind the port\ip and will not run or log useful
> > information to understand whats wrong extactly.
> > then you can't find any process of postfix using ps top or any other
> > tool but postfix will say that it is still running and the only way i
> > managed to make postfix work is to fix the master.cf and rebooting the
> > machine\os.
>
> To report a problem, please follow instructions in the mailing
> list welcome message. Instead of an eye witness report, provide
> concrete evidence from the configuration and logfiles.
>
> Like this:
>
> /etc/postfix/master.cf:
> 1.2.3.4:25 inet n - n - 1 whatever
>
> # postfix stop
> # postfix start
> # tail -3 /var/log/maillog
> Mar 6 06:53:25 tail postfix/master[60082]: terminating on signal 15
> Mar 6 06:53:28 tail postfix/postfix-script[4760]: starting the Postfix mail
> system
> Mar 6 06:53:28 tail postfix/master[4761]: fatal: bind 1.2.3.4 port 25: Can't
> assign requested address
Also:
# postfix status
postfix/postfix-script: the Postfix mail system is not running
If you can post your evidence, then we can look for differences.
Wietse
