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Subject: Re: "Device not configured" error message
From: Bill Sidhipong (bsaxysdesign.com)
Date: Mon Jul 03 2000 - 18:12:17 CDT

Wietse Venema wrote:
>
> Bill Sidhipong:
> > Jun 30 17:22:41 oahu postfix/master[18188]:
> > warning: master_wakeup_timer_event: service public/qmgr:
> > Device not configured
>
> This means that neither the Postfix master process nor the Postfix
> queue manager process listen on the FIFO at:
>
> /var/spool/postfix/public/qmgr

Okay, next time when this problem occurs, I'll know where to look,
thanks :)

> When Postfix runs, one of the two processes should listen on that
> FIFO. If FIFOs stop working, then you can forget about using Postfix.
>
> I have never observed this problem despite extensive tests and
> long-term usage on Solaris, BSD/OS or FreeBSD.
>
> I suspect a bug in your Linux kernel or library routines.

Hmm, this is standard kernel 2.2.15 + NFS patches that shouldn't affect
FIFO ... is there some test I can perform to help you narrow this problem?
It *might* have something to do with delivering mail to an SMTP host that's
not listening on port 25. I recall seeing this error when our ISP's SMTP
server went offline a few days earlier. Prior to this, postfix had been
running perfectly for *a few months*.
                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^
Then, thinking it was a problem in postfix that perhaps had been fixed, I
upgraded postfix and tested sending out to my server at home (which would
have been blocked by my firewall). A few days later, postfix generated
this error message. It could be a coincidence, of course =:-) 

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Bill Sidhipong
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