Postfix Fails To Start

Carlwill · 2011-03-18 16:06:43

I've freshly installed Postfix on a new working Arch machine & when I tried to start Postfix for the 1st time, I get this error message:

[root@mail postfix]# /etc/rc.d/postfix start
/etc/rc.d/postfix: line 6: pgrep: command not found

I then used 'vim' to look at the script it's complaining about /etc/rc,d/postfix:

#!/bin/bash

. /etc/rc.conf
. /etc/rc.d/functions

PID=`pgrep -f /usr/lib/postfix/master`

Obviously it doesn't like the 'pgrep' command but I don't understand why. I have 'grep' installed and Pacman installed all required dependencies for the Postfix 2.8.1-1 package. Is this a bug with the package that I should notify the maintainer about or is my system missing something for what ever reason?

skunktrader · 2011-03-18 16:09:14

Do you have procps installed?

Carlwill · 2011-03-18 16:31:15

No I do not. I just checked. Shouldn't Pacman detect dependencies and install them as needed? I thought that was the point of a package management system, no?

skunktrader · 2011-03-18 16:33:26

I think the assumption is that packages from core will always be installed

fukawi2 · 2011-03-19 00:41:36

procps is part of 'base' and should almost universally be installed.... You are correct though, postfix should probably depend on it.

This is the point of a bug tracker, to report problems when you find them, no?

Last edited by fukawi2 (2011-03-19 00:42:02)

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#1 2011-03-18 16:06:43

Postfix Fails To Start

#2 2011-03-18 16:09:14

Re: Postfix Fails To Start

#3 2011-03-18 16:31:15

Re: Postfix Fails To Start

#4 2011-03-18 16:33:26

Re: Postfix Fails To Start

#5 2011-03-19 00:41:36

Re: Postfix Fails To Start

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