Re: Worried about Postfix startup (new install)

dalive@flashmail.com (DALive Editor) writes:

> I just installed Postfix, I had erased my pervious Sendmail rpm
> installtion to the best of my knowledge. The init.d startup script for
> Sendmal stayed behind. I installed Postfix from source,
> successfully. I later shutdown my server, before I even really started
> palyin with postfix. On bootup I realise that Postfix is running,
> becuase the root has mail. '$ service sendmail start' works. However
> '$ service sendmail stop' does not. Can anyone explain to me how
> Postfix got started? And also where can I find a sample Postfix init.d
> startup script. I may have missed reference to one in that INSTALL
> file if there was any such reference.

The enclosed file is what is included in my rpm. It should do what you
want. Install it as /etc/rc.d/init.d/postfix and works on rh5-9 and
other distributions.

#!/bin/sh
#
# postfix Postfix Mail Transfer Agent
#
# chkconfig: 2345 80 30
# description: Postfix is a Mail Transport Agent, which is the program \
# that moves mail from one machine to another.
# processname: master
# pidfile: /var/spool/postfix/pid/master.pid
# config: /etc/postfix/main.cf
# config: /etc/postfix/master.cf
#
# $Revision: 2.1.2.1 $
#
# Written by Package Author: Simon J Mudd <sjmudd@pobox.com>
# 25/02/99: Mostly s/sendmail/postfix/g by John A. Martin <jam@jamux.com>
# 23/11/00: Changes & suggestions by Ajay Ramaswamy <ajayr@bigfoot.com>
# 20/01/01: Changes to fall in line with RedHat 7.0 style
# 23/02/01: Fix a few untidy problems with help from Daniel Roesen.

# Source function library.
.. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

# Source networking configuration.
.. /etc/sysconfig/network

# Check that networking is up.
[ ${NETWORKING} = "no" ] && exit 0

[ -x /usr/sbin/postfix ] || exit 0
[ -d /etc/postfix ] || exit 0
[ -d /var/spool/postfix ] || exit 0

RETVAL=0

start() {
# Start daemons.
echo -n "Starting postfix: "
/usr/sbin/postfix start 2>/dev/null 1>&2 && success || failure
RETVAL=$?
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/postfix
echo
return $RETVAL
}

stop() {
# Stop daemons.
echo -n "Shutting down postfix: "
/usr/sbin/postfix stop 2>/dev/null 1>&2 && success || failure
RETVAL=$?
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/postfix
echo
return $RETVAL
}

reload() {
echo -n "Reloading postfix: "
/usr/sbin/postfix reload 2>/dev/null 1>&2 && success || failure
RETVAL=$?
echo
return $RETVAL
}

restart() {
stop
start
}

abort() {
/usr/sbin/postfix abort 2>/dev/null 1>&2 && success || failure
return $?
}

flush() {
/usr/sbin/postfix flush 2>/dev/null 1>&2 && success || failure
return $?
}

check() {
/usr/sbin/postfix check 2>/dev/null 1>&2 && success || failure
return $?
}

# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
restart)
restart
;;
reload)
reload
;;
abort)
abort
;;
flush)
flush
;;
check)
check
;;
status)
status master
;;
condrestart)
# don't use /var/lock/subsys/postfix, check for postfix running directly
daemon_directory=$(postconf -h daemon_directory)
$daemon_directory/master -t 2>/dev/null && : || restart
;;
*)
echo "Usage: postfix {start|stop|restart|reload|abort|flush|check|statu s|condrestart}"
exit 1
esac

exit $?