[CentOS] Postfix dying

Thu Nov 8 17:37:05 UTC 2007
Paul Norton <paul at neoverve.com>

Christopher Chan wrote:
> Paul Norton wrote:
 >
>> Postfix is dying on one of my servers almost nightly.  This system is 
>> running CentOS5 with postfix-2.3.3-2.
>>
>> In the morning (after noticing it died) I try to run `service postfix 
>> stop` and I get a failed start.  Running `ps ax | grep postfix` I can 
>> see one process still running for postfix.  After killing this, I am 
>> able to run `service postfix start`.
> 
> Which process is it? smtpd? master?

Master

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