[CentOS] Postfix dying

[John Thomas]

Paul Norton said the following on 11/07/2007 10:57 AM:
> Postfix is dying on one of my servers almost nightly.  This system is 
> running CentOS5 with postfix-2.3.3-2.

I have had a similar problem, but Postfix continues to operate.  I am 
running CentOS 5.0 with all updates as a virtual machine inside the free 
VMWare server on a CentOS 5.0 machine.

[root at srv log]# egrep "signal|startup" maillog
Nov  4 12:56:21 srv postfix/master[9672]: warning: process 
/usr/libexec/postfix/anvil pid 23893 killed by signal 11
Nov  4 12:56:21 srv postfix/master[9672]: warning: 
/usr/libexec/postfix/anvil: bad command startup -- throttling
Nov  7 11:20:02 srv postfix/master[9672]: warning: process 
/usr/libexec/postfix/smtp pid 24327 killed by signal 11
Nov  7 11:20:02 srv postfix/master[9672]: warning: 
/usr/libexec/postfix/smtp: bad command startup -- throttling
Nov  9 07:02:49 srv postfix/master[9672]: warning: process 
/usr/libexec/postfix/pipe pid 13133 killed by signal 11
Nov  9 07:02:49 srv postfix/master[9672]: warning: 
/usr/libexec/postfix/pipe: bad command startup -- throttling

[root at srv log]# rpm -qa | grep postfix
postfix-2.3.3-2.el5.centos.mysql_pgsql
postfix-pflogsumm-2.3.3-2.el5.centos.mysql_pgsql

[root at srv log]# rpm -qa | grep -i vmware
VMwareTools-6532-56528

-- 
Sincerely,
John Thomas