On Mon, 2022-01-03 at 14:50 +1100, raf wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 02, 2022 at 09:32:53PM -0500, Ken Wright
> <daddywarl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Just checked my mail logs.  Do any of these help anyone?
> > 
> > kwright:~$ tail /var/log/mail.log
> > [...]
> > kwright:~$ tail /var/log/mail.err
> > Jan  2 21:15:34 grace master[79805]: fatal: master_spawn: exec
> > /usr/lib/postfix/sbin/0: No such file or directory
> > [...]
> 
> Yes! I think the reference to /usr/lib/postfix/sbin/0
> indicates an error in /etc/postfix/master.cf. The "0"
> comes from the executable name in column 8. You
> probably have a line with an extra word/column before
> column 8, so that what should be column 7 (usually a -
> or a number like 0 or 1) is now column 8, and it is
> being interpreted as the name of the executable that
> performs the service. Check for that.

Right at the bottom of the file, there was a line with an extra column
and "spawn" as the executable.  I removed the superfluous - and
restarted Postfix.  The only things that have changed in the logs are
the timestamps.

Ken

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