Postfix Issue

Grook93 · 08-11-2006, 04:51 AM

I can't get the Postfix service on my machine to start, I'm not sure why the service is failing. Here are my mail error log's.

Code:

Aug  5 11:37:09 localhost postfix/postfix-script: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running
Aug  5 11:47:12 localhost postfix[3717]: fatal: gethostbyname: Success
Aug  5 11:53:47 Trustix postfix/sendmail[1649]: fatal: gethostbyname: Success
Aug  5 11:53:48 Trustix postfix/postmap[1650]: fatal: gethostbyname: Success
Aug  5 11:53:49 Trustix postfix[1652]: fatal: gethostbyname: Success
Aug  5 11:56:13 Trustix postfix/sendmail[1647]: fatal: gethostbyname: Success
Aug  5 11:56:14 Trustix postfix/postmap[1648]: fatal: gethostbyname: Success
Aug  5 11:56:15 Trustix postfix[1650]: fatal: gethostbyname: Success
Aug  5 11:58:40 trustix postfix/sendmail[1648]: fatal: gethostbyname: Success
Aug  5 11:58:41 trustix postfix/postmap[1649]: fatal: gethostbyname: Success
Aug  5 11:58:42 trustix postfix[1651]: fatal: gethostbyname: Success
Aug  5 12:52:04 Trustix postfix/sendmail[1662]: fatal: gethostbyname: Success
Aug  5 12:52:05 Trustix postfix/postmap[1663]: fatal: gethostbyname: Success
Aug  5 12:52:06 Trustix postfix[1665]: fatal: gethostbyname: Success
Aug  6 00:02:49 Trustix postfix/sendmail[2234]: fatal: gethostbyname: Success
Aug  6 01:42:55 Trustix postfix/sendmail[6690]: fatal: gethostbyname: Success
Aug  6 01:42:56 Trustix postfix/postmap[6691]: fatal: gethostbyname: Success
Aug  6 01:42:57 Trustix postfix[6693]: fatal: gethostbyname: Success

I'm not sure what's going on there... I though maybe someone on LQ would have an idea? Thank you in advance.

unSpawn · 08-11-2006, 06:09 AM

Probably a resolver and not a security issue.
See if your /etc/host.conf contains your localhost name and IP address pair.
Else post exact info (remove duplicate lines) running Postfix in its most verbose mode (multiple "-v" flags).

Grook93 · 08-11-2006, 11:47 PM

My host.conf doesn't contain my hostname or IP address and I'm not sure how I would add them in. This is what's in my host.conf.

Code:

order hosts,bind
multi on

Postfix completely fails on start; I can't run it with verbose flags. Hopefully it isn't a security issue as I just installed it, and chkrootkit doesn't find anything.

unSpawn · 08-12-2006, 04:48 AM

Uh. I meant to say /etc/hosts, not /etc/host.conf.