Laura Smith:
> Any ideas where to start troubleshooting the below ? The logs offer no
> further hints or information as to what might have happened ?!?
>
> postfix-authrelay/master[1179]: fatal: daemon initialization failure
> postfix-inetgen/master[1195]: fatal: daemon initialization failure
> postfix-authrelay/postfix-script[1404]: fatal: mail system startup failed
> postfix-inetgen/postfix-script[1406]: fatal: mail system startup failed
>
> I'm running (or trying to !) Postfix 3.5.6 on Debian Bullseye.
It creates a master proces in the background, and that background
process disappears before it can log what is wrong.
To debug, run as root:
strace -f -o output-file /usr/libexec/postfix/master -w
and look for the process that is created after fork().
Wietse
