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Date: Thu Jul 01 2004 - 19:44:48 CDT

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I keep getting this error in my /var/log/mail.log. I did some hunting
around and people seem to think this has something to do with not being
able to read /etc/services due to chrooting. I'm pretty sure postfix
isn't trying to chroot itself however.

I'm running postfix 2.1.3 under debian (sid).

master.cf:
smtp inet n - n - - smtpd
#628 inet n - - - - qmqpd
pickup fifo n - - 60 1 pickup
cleanup unix n - n - 0 cleanup
qmgr fifo n - - 300 1 qmgr
#qmgr fifo n - - 300 1 nqmgr
rewrite unix - - n - - trivial-rewrite
bounce unix - - - - 0 bounce
defer unix - - - - 0 bounce
flush unix n - - 1000? 0 flush
proxymap unix - - n - - proxymap
smtp unix - - - - - smtp
relay unix - - - - - smtp
# -o smtp_helo_timeout=5 -o smtp_connect_timeout=5
showq unix n - - - - showq
error unix - - - - - error
local unix - n n - - local
virtual unix - n n - - virtual
lmtp unix - - n - - lmtp
trace unix - - - - 0 bounce
verify unix - - - - 1 verify

mail.log:
Jul 2 12:37:56 mail postfix/qmgr[26962]: 88FCEC5809D:
from=<ptkembdmsn.com>, size=11009, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jul 2 12:37:56 mail postfix/qmgr[26962]: B72E4C5809C:
from=<g.zanettimani.ac.nz>, size=1227, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jul 2 12:37:56 mail postfix/qmgr[26962]: 1DD17C58095:
from=<jacquelinehansenjywcrs.co.uk>, size=2012, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jul 2 12:37:56 mail postfix/smtp[26964]: fatal: unknown service: smtp/tcp
Jul 2 12:37:56 mail postfix/smtp[26965]: fatal: unknown service: smtp/tcp
Jul 2 12:37:56 mail postfix/smtp[26966]: fatal: unknown service: smtp/tcp
Jul 2 12:37:57 mail postfix/qmgr[26962]: warning: premature end-of-input
on private/smtp socket while reading input attribute name
Jul 2 12:37:57 mail postfix/qmgr[26962]: warning: private/smtp socket:
malformed response
Jul 2 12:37:57 mail postfix/qmgr[26962]: warning: transport smtp failure
-- see a previous warning/fatal/panic logfile record for the problem de
scription
Jul 2 12:37:57 mail postfix/master[26959]: warning: process
/usr/lib/postfix/smtp pid 26964 exit status 1
Jul 2 12:37:57 mail postfix/master[26959]: warning:
/usr/lib/postfix/smtp: bad command startup -- throttling

--
Grant Zanetti
http://the.mani.ac.nz

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