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From: Eray Aslan <eray.aslan@×××××××.tr>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [postfix - bug?] error in master.cf - problem with restart
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:11:21
Message-Id: 4A3F66C0.6020309@caf.com.tr
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] [postfix - bug?] error in master.cf - problem with restart by Marcin Niskiewicz
1 On 22.06.2009 13:02, Marcin Niskiewicz wrote:
2 > I noticed that when someone makes an error in master.cf
3 > <http://master.cf> (for example write anything at the beginning of the
4 > file) and then restart postfix there is a problem:
5 >
6 > postfix is stopped (that's ok), then it should be started but it isn't
7 > (in log something like
8 > postfix/master[1649]: fatal: /etc/postfix/master.cf <http://master.cf>:
9 > line 4: bad transport type:
10 > ==========================================================================)
11 > and there is no error shown on console ( echo $? - shows 0 )
12 >
13 > and then when we try to restart (or start) postfix again - we can't -
14 > unless we delete /var/lib/init.d/started/postfix file (it's not deleted
15 > while restarting)
16 >
17 > is it a bug or we're doing sth wrong?!
18
19 Postfix init script just calls postfix(1) which calls postfix-script
20 which calls master(8). Exit codes do not get back to the terminal.
21
22 Use postfix status to check whether the mail system is running.
23
24 --
25 Eray

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Re: [gentoo-user] [postfix - bug?] error in master.cf - problem with restart Marcin Niskiewicz <mniskiewicz@×××××.com>