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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Can't stop/restart postfix - pid associated with another process Post 302969338 by stevie_velvet on Monday 21st of March 2016 06:52:59 PM
Old 03-21-2016
Can't stop/restart postfix - pid associated with another process
This issue could happen to any other service but in this case its commssioning Postfix - it seems i can't stop postfix as the PID relates to another service - i've delete the 'master.lock' but to no available - any ideas, memeory commands etc ?
thanks in advance
ps. the serve is in Production so i have to proceed with cautio n

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Code:
server1 init.d]# ./postfix status
master (pid  2370) is running...

[root@server1 init.d]# ps -ef | grep 2370
root      2370  2341  0  2015 ?        00:00:00 hald-addon-input: Listening on /dev/input/event0

[/var/lib/postfix] cat master.lock
                            2370
[root@server1 postfix]# service postfix stop
Shutting down postfix:                                     [FAILED]

...rm master.lock....

[root@server1 postfix]# service postfix start
[root@server1 postfix]# service postfix status
master (pid  2370) is running...

[/var/lib/postfix]
# ls -l
total 0

Last edited by jim mcnamara; 03-21-2016 at 09:27 PM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

postfix-nochroot

postfix-nochroot(8)					      System Manager's Manual					       postfix-nochroot(8)

NAME

       postfix-nochroot - change /etc/postfix/master.cf to not use chroot

SYNOPSIS

       postfix-nochroot

DESCRIPTION

       Renames /etc/postfix/master.cf to /etc/postfix/master.cf.bak and creates a new /etc/postfix/master.cf file with every service configured to
       not use chroot.	Every modified line is commented.  It also restarts Postfix (to apply the change) and rmoves the unused chroot directories
       /var/spool/postfix/{etc,lib,usr} .

       Using a chroot environment makes upgrades more difficult and gets in the way when running SE Linux (without actually providing any security
       benefit in a SE Linux system).

SEE ALSO

       selinux(8),  sestatus(8),   selinuxenabled(1),	check-selinux-installation(8),	 selinux-config-enforcing(8),	selinux-policy-upgrade(8),
       http://wiki.debian.org/SELinux  - More about SELinux Debian install, http://etbe.coker.com.au/tag/selinux/ - Russell's SE Linux blog posts,
       http://etbe.coker.com.au/2008/08/02/postfix-and-chroot/ - post about this script.

AUTHOR

       This program and it's man page was written by Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> for the Debian system (but may be used by others).  Per-
       mission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3.

															       postfix-nochroot(8)
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