Postfix wont restart after kill the process/service - newbie question

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settusblake
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Postfix wont restart after kill the process/service - newbie

Post by settusblake » 2013/09/11 08:18:42

Hello!

Ive made a little mistake. I killed the master process/service for postfix.
Now i cant restart the service again.

How can I solve this? And what additional information do you need?

Output from Linux:

[root@kcsweb03 /]# postfix restart
-bash: /usr/sbin/postfix: cannot execute binary file

or:

[root@kcsweb03 /]# service postfix start
Starting postfix: [FAILED]

There is nothing interesting in the logs (maillog, messages, etc)
tested it with sudo too.

foxb
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Re: Postfix wont restart after kill the process/service - newbie question

Post by foxb » 2013/09/12 23:26:11

did you try after rebooting?
Maybe a process is stuck.

If not try verifying postfix

rpm -vV postfix

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