[Nottingham] Postfix problem...

[David Aldred]

On Sunday 11 Sep 2005 22:00, Simon Amor wrote:
> On 11 Sep 2005, at 21:41, David Aldred wrote:
> > I now have a 260k file of the strace output, and I don't think I'm
> > much the
> > wiser.  260k better informed, perhaps, but that's not helping :-(
> >
> > Any pointers to what to look for?
>
> Generally I tend to start at the end and once I've found where it
> dumps out the error message, start working back from that to see what
> caused it.
>
> It looks like it's querying /etc/hosts for something - do you have
> some strange setup in there?
>
> 13865 read(15, "192.168.8.11            localhos"..., 4096) = 530
>
> localhost should be 127.0.0.1 and 192.168.8.11 should be called
> something else. Perhaps you could post the relevant snippets of /etc/
> hosts ?

Good spot - I did have /etc/hosts incorrectly set up.  The 192.168.8.11 line 
(which is this machine) read

192.168.8.11	localhost	main	main.familyaldred.org.uk

I've now split that into 
127.0.0.1	localhost
192.168.8.11	main	main.familyaldred.org.uk

.... but retrying mail still produces the same effect :-(

There's a line further up which starts:

execve("/usr/lib/postfix/bounce", 

Should we be looking above there?   That looks to me like the start of the 
bounce process (so it would have decided by then that it can't do what it 
should). 


-- 
David Aldred