Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community

Sponsored Content
Full Discussion: Can't stop/restart postfix - pid associated with another process
Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Can't stop/restart postfix - pid associated with another process Post 302969346 by jim mcnamara on Monday 21st of March 2016 08:34:04 PM
Old 03-21-2016
What does show
Code:
postfix check

to see if there are problems with the queue directory, for example.

Code:
postfix abort

will shut it down pretty much no matter what. It won't take down the system. But you may need to find out what is goofed up and fix it before you restart.

Does
Code:
postfix flush

send pending mail? I would guess not. But you can try to send pending email this way before you force it down.
 

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Postfix Restart

I am really really new on UNIX system. I am trying to update our e-mail list. I added/deleted new members at etc/aliases but e-amil always got old e-mail lists. I reloaded postmaster but does not seem to be working. Anybody has any idea? (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: kumarrana
4 Replies

2. SuSE

Restart process

I have a process that gradually eats up memory, it's currently at 80.2% and slowing down the linux server > ps aux | grep SNMPME root 3129 0.0 80.2 3591752 2480700 ? Sl Feb13 5:04 /opt/nampe/lib/snmpme/SNMPME config/startup.xml Is there a command I can execute to restart this... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: brendan76
3 Replies

3. AIX

How to start/stop/restart NFS on AIX

Hi, Very new to aix How to start/stop/restart NFS on AIX thanks, (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: jredx
2 Replies

4. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Log 'syslog start/stop/restart' messages

How can I tell my syslog.conf to log "syslog start/stop/restart" messages on a Solaris box? (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: SunnyK
1 Replies

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Need to get pid of a process and have to store the pid in a variable

Hi, I need to get the pid of a process and have to store the pid in a variable and i want to use this value(pid) of the variable for some process. Please can anyone tell me how to get the pid of a process and store it in a variable. please help me on this. Thanks in advance, Amudha (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: samudha
7 Replies

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Start Stop Restart

I'm wondering how I should make a script that can start, stop, and restart another script. What I need to be able to do, is start and stop a perl script from the command line. The easiest way of doing this seems to be to have another script, starting and stopping the other script. I have BASH,... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: Bakes
7 Replies

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Stop/Start vs. Restart

Is there any functional difference between: issuing separate stop/start commands like this; super (handler) (instance) stop super (handler) (instance) start versus issuing a single recycle command like this; super (handler) (instance) restart (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Newbix
3 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Script to restart process

HI, I am trying to write a scrip which would restart active process. This is what i have written till now. $ xms show pr PRESE.* NAME STATUS ROLE PID RSTRTS STARTED MACHINE... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: Siddheshk
8 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

[Solved] Unable to mailx new $pid for a script restart

Ill try to make this brief: I am trying to get the script below to run another script defined as BATNAM. The script runs fine, does what i designed it to do, however... I would like it to mailx the NEW $pid that was restarted. This script is supposed to go in crontab as root, and run by... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: olyanderson
8 Replies

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

How do i restart a process if it fails?

Hi Guru's, I just want to have an idea on how to restart a particular step when it fails? SCENARIO we have plenty of steps such as the following below: Step 1 copy file from source to target location which is in a different server. Step 2 create initial and incremental process ... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: reignangel2003
4 Replies

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)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 01:11 PM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy