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User profile for user: ppina
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I Need help .


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Fatal : the Postfix mail system is not running


Please help

Posted on May 30, 2012 3:47 PM

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User profile for user: Camelot
Camelot
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Jun 1, 2012 8:55 AM in response to ppina

Umm... you didn't give us much to go on, there.


First, I presume you want/expect your mail server to be running - you don't actually state that.

Second, what do the logs say - either /var/log/mail.log or /var/log/system.log would be good places to start. If postfix refuses to start it usually indicates a configuration problem, and that should be logged so you can pinpoint and correct the issue.


As is, there's nothing more anyone can suggest without more detail.

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Jun 1, 2012 1:32 PM in response to Camelot

Thanks


My Mail service dont stop .


apache.tomcat[87325]): Suspicious setup: User "appserver" maps to user: _appserver

Jun 1 21:22:19 xservecolt emond[115]: Host at 222.221.78.222 will be blocked for at least 15.00 minutes

Jun 1 21:22:20 xservecolt emond[87341]: DoRunAction (child): setting the uid/gid to 0/0

Jun 1 21:22:20 xservecolt emond[115]: Host at 222.221.78.222 will be blocked for at least 15.00 minutes

Jun 1 21:22:20 xservecolt emond[87344]: DoRunAction (child): setting the uid/gid to 0/0

Jun 1 21:22:21 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat): Throttling respawn: Will start in 8 seconds

Jun 1 21:22:29 xservecolt Server Admin[84999]: Unexpected call to doMarkConfigurationAsDirty by 'Mail' plugin during updateConfigurationViewFromDescription

Jun 1 21:22:29 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat[87369]): Suspicious setup: User "appserver" maps to user: _appserver

Jun 1 21:22:32 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat): Throttling respawn: Will start in 8 seconds

Jun 1 21:22:40 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat[87389]): Suspicious setup: User "appserver" maps to user: _appserver

Jun 1 21:22:42 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat): Throttling respawn: Will start in 8 seconds

Jun 1 21:22:50 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat[87408]): Suspicious setup: User "appserver" maps to user: _appserver

Jun 1 21:22:52 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat): Throttling respawn: Will start in 8 seconds

Jun 1 21:22:56 xservecolt emond[115]: Host at 222.221.78.222 will be blocked for at least 15.00 minutes

Jun 1 21:22:56 xservecolt emond[87435]: DoRunAction (child): setting the uid/gid to 0/0

Jun 1 21:23:00 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat[87455]): Suspicious setup: User "appserver" maps to user: _appserver

Jun 1 21:23:00 xservecolt postfix/postfix-script[87466]: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running

Jun 1 21:23:01 xservecolt emond[115]: Host at 222.221.78.222 will be blocked for at least 15.00 minutes

Jun 1 21:23:02 xservecolt emond[87499]: DoRunAction (child): setting the uid/gid to 0/0

Jun 1 21:23:02 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat): Throttling respawn: Will start in 8 seconds

Jun 1 21:23:06 xservecolt emond[115]: Host at 222.221.78.222 will be blocked for at least 15.00 minutes

Jun 1 21:23:06 xservecolt emond[87519]: DoRunAction (child): setting the uid/gid to 0/0

Jun 1 21:23:06 xservecolt emond[115]: Host at 222.221.78.222 will be blocked for at least 15.00 minutes

Jun 1 21:23:07 xservecolt emond[87522]: DoRunAction (child): setting the uid/gid to 0/0

Jun 1 21:23:10 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat[87526]): Suspicious setup: User "appserver" maps to user: _appserver

Jun 1 21:23:11 xservecolt emond[115]: Host at 222.221.78.222 will be blocked for at least 15.00 minutes

Jun 1 21:23:11 xservecolt emond[87545]: DoRunAction (child): setting the uid/gid to 0/0

Jun 1 21:23:12 xservecolt emond[115]: Host at 222.221.78.222 will be blocked for at least 15.00 minutes

Jun 1 21:23:12 xservecolt emond[87548]: DoRunAction (child): setting the uid/gid to 0/0

Jun 1 21:23:12 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat): Throttling respawn: Will start in 8 seconds

Jun 1 21:23:16 xservecolt emond[115]: Host at 222.221.78.222 will be blocked for at least 15.00 minutes

Jun 1 21:23:16 xservecolt emond[87563]: DoRunAction (child): setting the uid/gid to 0/0

Jun 1 21:23:17 xservecolt emond[115]: Host at 222.221.78.222 will be blocked for at least 15.00 minutes

Jun 1 21:23:17 xservecolt emond[87566]: DoRunAction (child): setting the uid/gid to 0/0

Jun 1 21:23:20 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat[87570]): Suspicious setup: User "appserver" maps to user: _appserver

Jun 1 21:23:21 xservecolt emond[115]: Host at 222.221.78.222 will be blocked for at least 15.00 minutes

Jun 1 21:23:21 xservecolt emond[87586]: DoRunAction (child): setting the uid/gid to 0/0

Jun 1 21:23:22 xservecolt emond[115]: Host at 222.221.78.222 will be blocked for at least 15.00 minutes

Jun 1 21:23:22 xservecolt emond[87592]: DoRunAction (child): setting the uid/gid to 0/0

Jun 1 21:23:22 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat): Throttling respawn: Will start in 8 seconds

Jun 1 21:23:30 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat[87602]): Suspicious setup: User "appserver" maps to user: _appserver

Jun 1 21:23:33 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat): Throttling respawn: Will start in 8 seconds

Jun 1 21:23:41 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat[87625]): Suspicious setup: User "appserver" maps to user: _appserver

Jun 1 21:23:43 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat): Throttling respawn: Will start in 8 seconds

Jun 1 21:23:51 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat[87642]): Suspicious setup: User "appserver" maps to user: _appserver

Jun 1 21:23:53 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat): Throttling respawn: Will start in 8 seconds

Jun 1 21:23:56 xservecolt ctl_cyrusdb[87652]: checkpointing cyrus databases

Jun 1 21:23:56 xservecolt ctl_cyrusdb[87652]: done checkpointing cyrus databases

Jun 1 21:24:01 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat[87663]): Suspicious setup: User "appserver" maps to user: _appserver

Jun 1 21:24:04 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat): Throttling respawn: Will start in 8 seconds

Jun 1 21:24:12 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat[87679]): Suspicious setup: User "appserver" maps to user: _appserver

Jun 1 21:24:14 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat): Throttling respawn: Will start in 8 seconds

Jun 1 21:24:22 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat[87696]): Suspicious setup: User "appserver" maps to user: _appserver

Jun 1 21:24:24 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat): Throttling respawn: Will start in 8 seconds

Jun 1 21:24:32 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat[87712]): Suspicious setup: User "appserver" maps to user: _appserver

Jun 1 21:24:34 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat): Throttling respawn: Will start in 8 seconds

Jun 1 21:24:42 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat[87729]): Suspicious setup: User "appserver" maps to user: _appserver

Jun 1 21:24:45 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat): Throttling respawn: Will start in 8 seconds

Jun 1 21:24:53 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat[87745]): Suspicious setup: User "appserver" maps to user: _appserver

Jun 1 21:24:55 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat): Throttling respawn: Will start in 8 seconds

Jun 1 21:25:01 xservecolt servermgrd[1547]: [1547] error in getAndLockContext: flock(servermgr_info) FATAL time out

Jun 1 21:25:01 xservecolt servermgrd[1547]: [1547] process will force-quit to avoid deadlock

Jun 1 21:25:01 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.servermgrd[1547]): Exited with exit code: 1

Jun 1 21:25:03 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat[87763]): Suspicious setup: User "appserver" maps to user: _appserver

Jun 1 21:25:05 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat): Throttling respawn: Will start in 8 seconds

Jun 1 21:25:12 xservecolt servermgrd[87761]: *** -[WPWebServices updateWithError:]: 'setCredentialsWithRecordType' against /LDAPv3/192.168.100.102 failed.

Jun 1 21:25:12 xservecolt servermgrd[87761]: WhitePagesFramework: backing up WebServices data to /Local/Default because node /LDAPv3/192.168.100.102 is unreachable.

Jun 1 21:25:12 xservecolt servermgrd[87761]: NSScanner: nil string argument

Jun 1 21:25:12 xservecolt servermgrd[87761]: *** -[WPWebServices updateWebServices:withVirtualHosts:withSession:]: 'setCredentialsWithRecordType' against /LDAPv3/192.168.100.102 failed. Reason: Unable to set extended node credentials for /LDAPv3/192.168.100.102.

Jun 1 21:25:12 xservecolt servermgrd[87761]: NSScanner: nil string argument

Jun 1 21:25:12 xservecolt servermgrd[87761]: servermgr_calendar: created default calendar virtual host

Jun 1 21:25:13 xservecolt servermgrd[87761]: servermgr_ipfilter:ipfw config:Notice:Flushed IPv4 rules

Jun 1 21:25:13 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat[87779]): Suspicious setup: User "appserver" maps to user: _appserver

Jun 1 21:25:13 xservecolt servermgrd[87761]: servermgr_ipfilter:ipfw config:Notice:Flushed IPv6 rules

Jun 1 21:25:15 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat): Throttling respawn: Will start in 8 seconds

Jun 1 21:25:16 xservecolt servermgrd[87761]: *** -[WPWebServices updateWithError:]: 'setCredentialsWithRecordType' against /LDAPv3/192.168.100.102 failed.

Jun 1 21:25:16 xservecolt servermgrd[87761]: WhitePagesFramework: backing up WebServices data to /Local/Default because node /LDAPv3/192.168.100.102 is unreachable.

Jun 1 21:25:17 xservecolt servermgrd[87761]: NSScanner: nil string argument

Jun 1 21:25:17 xservecolt servermgrd[87761]: *** -[WPWebServices updateWebServices:withVirtualHosts:withSession:]: 'setCredentialsWithRecordType' against /LDAPv3/192.168.100.102 failed. Reason: Unable to set extended node credentials for /LDAPv3/192.168.100.102.

Jun 1 21:25:17 xservecolt servermgrd[87761]: NSScanner: nil string argument

Jun 1 21:25:17 xservecolt servermgrd[87761]: servermgr_web: Could not update the webservices record: (null). Cannot initialize.

Jun 1 21:25:23 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat[87806]): Suspicious setup: User "appserver" maps to user: _appserver

Jun 1 21:25:26 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat): Throttling respawn: Will start in 8 seconds

Jun 1 21:25:34 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat[87827]): Suspicious setup: User "appserver" maps to user: _appserver

Jun 1 21:25:37 xservecolt servermgrd[87761]: --Module servermgr_info returned nil response

Jun 1 21:25:38 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat): Throttling respawn: Will start in 6 seconds

Jun 1 21:25:44 xservecolt kernel[0]: (default pager): [KERNEL]: no space in available paging segments

Jun 1 21:25:44 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat[87852]): Suspicious setup: User "appserver" maps to user: _appserver

Jun 1 21:25:51 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat): Throttling respawn: Will start in 4 seconds

Jun 1 21:25:55 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat[87867]): Suspicious setup: User "appserver" maps to user: _appserver

Jun 1 21:25:59 xservecolt com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.tomcat): Throttling respawn: Will start in 6 seconds

Jun 1 21:26:01 xservecolt kernel[0]: (default pager): [KERNEL]: no space in available paging segments



Jun 1 06:56:12 xservecolt postfix/postfix-script[507]: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running

Jun 1 11:29:02 xservecolt postfix/postfix-script[1160]: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running

Jun 1 12:56:49 xservecolt postfix/postfix-script[13780]: warning: damaged message: corrupt/E2A712FDBAB0

Jun 1 21:23:00 xservecolt postfix/postfix-script[87466]: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running

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User profile for user: Camelot
Camelot
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Jun 1, 2012 8:40 PM in response to ppina

hmm, so in nearly 100 lines of log you choose to focus on four messages related to postfix and ignore the other problems on your machine? strange.


It's clear your machine is having issues - the postfix errors are almost certainly the system trying to send you a notice email but failing because postfix isn't running - there isn't anything there that tells me postfix is broken, per se., rather it's just not turned on.


You should focus more on the other errors on your system. I'd be especially worried about Apache Tomcat respawning, assuming you're using that (if not, turn it off), and if you don't recognize the IP address 222.221.78.222 then the emond messages might be of concern, too.


As for your original question - enable mail (via Server Admin) and those four messages will likely go away, but it won't address any of the other issues.

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User profile for user: ppina
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Jun 2, 2012 8:41 AM in response to ppina

Apache Tomcat is ok Now . I turn Off


Jun 1 06:56:12 xservecolt postfix/postfix-script[507]: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running

Jun 1 11:29:02 xservecolt postfix/postfix-script[1160]: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running

Jun 1 12:56:49 xservecolt postfix/postfix-script[13780]: warning: damaged message: corrupt/E2A712FDBAB0

Jun 1 21:23:00 xservecolt postfix/postfix-script[87466]: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running

Jun 1 22:23:28 xservecolt postfix/postmap[95104]: warning: /etc/postfix/sasl/passwd: logical line must not start with whitespace: "??:"

Jun 1 22:23:28 xservecolt postfix/postfix-script[95109]: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running

Jun 1 22:23:59 xservecolt postfix/postmap[95183]: warning: /etc/postfix/sasl/passwd: logical line must not start with whitespace: "??:"

Jun 1 22:24:01 xservecolt postfix/postfix-script[95201]: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running

Jun 1 22:24:23 xservecolt postfix/postqueue[95254]: warning: Mail system is down -- accessing queue directly

Jun 1 23:55:20 xservecolt postfix/postfix-script[6680]: warning: damaged message: corrupt/E2A712FDBAB0

Jun 2 10:04:46 xservecolt postfix/postqueue[91977]: warning: Mail system is down -- accessing queue directly

Jun 2 15:58:32 xservecolt postfix/postmap[22935]: warning: /etc/postfix/sasl/passwd: logical line must not start with whitespace: "??:"

Jun 2 15:58:54 xservecolt postfix/postfix-script[23001]: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running

Jun 2 16:02:55 xservecolt postfix/postqueue[23457]: warning: Mail system is down -- accessing queue directly

Jun 2 16:05:28 xservecolt postfix/postqueue[23728]: warning: Mail system is down -- accessing queue directly

Jun 2 16:10:37 xservecolt postfix/postfix-script[24254]: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running

Jun 2 16:15:03 xservecolt postfix/postfix-script[24767]: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running

Jun 2 16:28:55 xservecolt postfix/postfix-script[821]: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running

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User profile for user: Camelot
Camelot
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Jun 2, 2012 8:52 PM in response to ppina

OK, but you still have not explained whether you EXPECT the mail service to be running on this machine and it's not, or whether you do not expect it to be running.


On one hand, these messages are normal and likely benign - the erratic timestamps indicate that it isn't postfix that's trying (and failing) to start up, rather some other process has tried to send a message through this machine, but the mail server isn't running.


The simplest solution would be to enable the mail server - at least that way you have a chance to view the messages that are being sent, which might indicate some other problem that's going on. For example, you cn configure the server to send email alerts when certain events happen - such as the server getting low on disk space. It might be handy to recieve these emails.


The only log message that does indicate a concern is the postmap error:


Jun 2 15:58:32 xservecolt postfix/postmap[22935]: warning: /etc/postfix/sasl/passwd: logical line must not start with whitespace: "??:"


which indicates an invalid entry in that file. Since that file isn't used in the default configuration it indicates that you have somehow tried to edit the config and made an error somewhere. Fixing this file will make these errors go away.

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