[SOLVED] Postfix don't start after upgrade 5.0 to 6.0.6

[slaplante]

Hi guys,

I successfully upgraded to from Zimbra 5.0 to 6.0.6 except that postfix now refuse to start. All other service looks fine though. Here's the error when zimbra is start;

Starting zmmtaconfig...zmmtaconfig is already running.
postalias: fatal: bad string length 0 < 1: setgid_group =
postfix failed to start

it seems that postalias fail to build the aliases map because setgid_group is not set in main.cf

I tried to issue this command to fix main.cf;
postconf -e setgid_group=postdrop

It fix it but when zimbra is restarted main.cf is overwrite with a version that set setgid_group to null

I then check zimbra local config with;
zmlocalconfig -s|grep setgid_group
setgid_group = postdrop

So it looks properly set. I confirmed it by looking at localconfig.xml;

<key name="setgid_group">
<value>postdrop</value>
</key>

Looks good too, I then look at my latest config files (./config.397);
postfix_setgid_group=postdrop

I'm pretty mazes... Anyone knows which process overwrite /opt/zimbra/postfix/conf/main.cf ?

I monitored main.cf and it seem to be overwritten when mailboxd start but I'm not sure...

Thanks in advance!

Steeve

[gvocom]

zmmtactr start is what starts the mta and begins the main.cf rewrite

you can watch this by doing a
#tail -f /var/log/zimbra.log

also other useful log files would be in /opt/zimbra/log/ as it doesn't keep everything in /var/log

Im using Deb 5 so it may be different for you. I would check /etc/groups to insure the group is not messed up, fix that and try to chown the files to rootostfix and then do a restart

hope this helps.

[uxbod]

If the UID/GIDs are okay then run as root

/opt/zimbra/libexec/zmfixperms --extended

[slaplante]

Thanks guy for the reply!

I first trails (tail -f) /var/log/zimbra to identify which process rewrite main.cf and found out it is this one;

May 14 09:34:44 SAIMAPC01 zimbramon[29702]: 29702:info: Rewriting configs antispam amavis antivirus amavis webxml mailbox amavis antispam antivirus mta sasl

As it during the ldap start up, I assumed the bad config is somewhere in the directory as I was unable to find a bad config file on the fs...

I also tried the extended permfix as root with no result;

/opt/zimbra/libexec/zmfixperms --extended

Is it possible that zcs 6.0.6 now store mta config in the LDAP? If not, any other suggestions?

Thanks again for your time!

Steeve

[uxbod]

What does the following show

su - zimbra
zmlocalconfig postfix_setgid_group

That AFAIK should be set to postdrop. If it is correct in the localconfig you can set it using

su - zimbra
zmlocalconfig -e postfix_setgid_group=postdrop
zmcontrol stop ; zmcontrol start

[slaplante]

Thanks UXBOD!

It worked!

First I got this returned;
zmlocalconfig postfix_setgid_group
Warning: null valued key 'postfix_setgid_group'

I then issued;

zmlocalconfig -e postfix_setgid_group=postdrop

And it started up perfectly!

Thanks for your help guys!

I wish you a good one!

Steeve