Hi All,

I am using SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64).

Postfix status is running, but am getting below errors in logs.

Kindly help me to resolve this issue.

Sep 30 07:25:24 Server_name postfix/pickup[28044]: fatal: watchdog timeout
Sep 30 07:25:25 Server_name postfix/master[11766]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/pickup pid 28044 exit status 1
Sep 30 07:25:25 Server_name postfix/master[11766]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/pickup: bad command startup -- throttling
Sep 30 07:25:42 Server_name postfix/cleanup[29822]: fatal: open database /etc/postfix/sender_canonical.db: Bad file descriptor
Sep 30 07:25:43 Server_name postfix/master[11766]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/cleanup pid 29822 exit status 1
Sep 30 07:25:43 Server_name postfix/master[11766]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/cleanup: bad command startup -- throttling
Sep 30 07:25:51 Server_name postfix/smtpd[29823]: fatal: open database /etc/postfix/virtual.db: Bad file descriptor


Thanks in Advance.

Regards,
Hariharan V

Hello,

seems to me a bad or corrupted filesystem.
(google for "bad file descriptor")
Postfix can't access configuration files.


Does "dmesg" contain harddrive errors?
Is the filesystem mounted read-only?

Maybe you should use "fsck".

HTH
Karpi