On Thu, 2024-05-16 at 21:40 -0400, Alex wrote: > Hi, > I have a fedora38 server with postfix-3.7.9 (although this problem > has existed for a long time) that fails to start because I believe > the server has multiple interfaces. > > ifconfig shows just the primary ethernet interface, but "ip addr" > shows the rest. There are five total interfaces in this multi- > instance postfix config. Are you using them all? Are they all up? Do you want postfix to work with all of them? I'm guessing so, but it's not absolutely clear. If there's a "no" in there, have you tried configuring postfix to only care about a particular interface or IP? If "yes," how have you configured postfix to listen? To specific interfaces, to a generic "all"? > After the system boots, I can start postfix successfully with just > "service postfix start". > > Is it perhaps trying to start before networking is available? This > would be odd because the problem has persisted for quite a while, and > I would have thought something like that would have been fixed long > ago. > > Perhaps related to the difference between ifconfig and ip? Where is > the egrep coming from? I don't see it in the systemd file: > > # ls -l /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/postfix.service > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Jan 24 2023 /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/postfix.service -> /usr/lib/systemd/system/postfix.service It could well be down to it trying to start too early, and other people have dealt with it by themselves, or their hardware comes up quicker than yours does. You may want to look into network-online.target, and define what you consider as the network being up (is one interface adequate or all interfaces required?). multi-user.target.wants is rather simple /the OS is running/, and it can do that without there being a network. I kinda wish there was a general purpose "non-urgent" parameter for some services. They wouldn't try to immediately start as the system booted, cutting down on the flurry of things trying to fire up. Let just the essential services do that. After that, *then* look at the remaining ones. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.118.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Apr 24 16:01:50 UTC 2024 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
