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From: thegeezer <thegeezer@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to debug postgrey
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 09:30:49
Message-Id: 54478744.4010401@thegeezer.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Trying to debug postgrey by Ajai Khattri
1 On 22/10/14 06:12, Ajai Khattri wrote:
2 >
3 > Ive been running postgrey for years without any problems but today I
4 > noticed I hadn't gotten email for awhile and realized upon
5 > investigation that postgrey wasnt running so postfix was rejecting mail.
6 >
7 > What's maddening is that I can run postgrey quite happily from the
8 > command line in the foregorund, but if I try to use the init script or
9 > otherwise try to daemonize it, it silently crashes:
10 >
11 > # /etc/init.d/postgrey start
12 > * Starting Postgrey ...
13 > [ ok ]
14 > # pgrep -af postgrey
15 >
16 > Its not running.
17 >
18 > The logs dont show anything useful. If I ask the init script to be
19 > verbose I see this:
20 >
21 > # /etc/init.d/postgrey start --verbose
22 > * Caching service dependencies ...
23 > [ ok ]
24 > * Starting Postgrey ...
25 > * start-stop-daemon: fopen `/var/run/postgrey.pid': No such file or
26 > directory
27 > [ ok ]
28 > #
29 >
30 > which doesn't make much sense.
31 >
32 >
33 i had this happen the other day, it's an issue with postgrey + perl 5.18
34 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=521912

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Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to debug postgrey Ajai Khattri <ajai@××××.net>