[OpenIndiana-discuss] Help needed starting postfix as a service - maintenance state

[Stephan Althaus]

On 1/23/23 08:18, Stephan Althaus wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Yesterday i moved from CSWpostfix to the OI version.
>
> "postfix start" and "postfix stop" works in my zone (as root), no 
> errors with "postfix check",
> but "svcadm enable postfix" results in maintenance state because of:
>
> Jan 23 07:45:37 mail postfix/postfix-script[23386]: [ID 947731 
> mail.crit] fatal: the Postfix mail system is already running
> Jan 23 07:45:38 mail postfix/postfix-script[23392]: [ID 947731 
> mail.crit] fatal: the Postfix mail system is already running
> Jan 23 07:45:39 mail postfix/postfix-script[23398]: [ID 947731 
> mail.crit] fatal: the Postfix mail system is already running
>
> Disabling, and re-enabling does not help, the reboot of the zone 
> doesn't help either.
>
> Groups for role 'root' are:
>
> #groups
> root other bin sys adm uucp mail tty lp nuucp daemon postfix
>
> Any hints are welcome to get the service running..
>
> Thanks!
>
> Stephan
>
>
>
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Hello!

Just to be complete here, the solution was to remove the file 
/var/spool/postfix/pid/master.pid

It was annoying that the manual start of postfix did not complain..

Regards,
Stephan