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