From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 7 15:37:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from pawn.primelocation.net (pawn.primelocation.net [205.161.238.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5746815114 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 15:37:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cdf.lists@fxp.org) Received: by pawn.primelocation.net (Postfix, from userid 1016) id 5768D9B20; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 18:35:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pawn.primelocation.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48D70BA1C; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 18:35:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 18:35:25 -0400 (EDT) From: "Chris D. Faulhaber" X-Sender: cdf.lists@pawn.primelocation.net To: Pascal Hofstee Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shell script trouble In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Pascal Hofstee wrote: > su-2.03# /usr/local/sbin/postfix reload > postfix-script: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running > > I Know the mail system IS running on Postfix though: > su-2.03# ps -aux | egrep postfix > postfix 205 0.0 0.7 928 612 ?? I 5:01PM 0:00.26 qmgr -l -t > fifo > postfix 1585 0.0 0.5 872 508 ?? I 11:39PM 0:00.02 pickup -l > -t fif > postfix 1809 0.0 0.8 952 724 ?? I 12:11AM 0:00.02 smtpd -n > smtp -t > postfix 1810 0.0 0.7 928 680 ?? I 12:11AM 0:00.02 cleanup -t > unix > postfix 1811 0.0 0.6 900 584 ?? I 12:11AM 0:00.02 > trivial-rewrite > postfix 1812 0.0 0.8 956 712 ?? I 12:11AM 0:00.02 local -t > unix > > There are some of Postfix's daemons running above, but you seem to be missing: root 286 0.0 0.8 872 220 ?? Is 29Sep99 0:10.23 /usr/local/libexec/postfix/master Which is the actual process that listens on port 25. Since 'postfix reload' cannot communicate with master, it says that postfix is not running. Next step, find out where your master is? ----- Chris D. Faulhaber | All the true gurus I've met never System/Network Administrator, | claimed they were one, and always Reality Check Information, Inc. | pointed to someone better. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message