Install on Ubuntu Edgy - postfix not running

[mowen]

I've just installed Zimbra (v4.5.2) on a new, freshly installed Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy) server box, following the guide on http://www.howtoforge.com/installing...uite_on_ubuntu

DNS has been setup correctly from a previously working Ubuntu 6.06/Zimbra box.
Installation appears to complete, but a 'zmcontrol status' shows the MTA as stopped, postfix not running. For masochistic pleasure, reformatted and repeated - just in case I missed something out - with the same result.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Mark

[jholder]

Let's take a look at the
/var/log/zimbra.log

That's the postfix log, so if there's anything wrong, it'll be in there.

If you can, look at it, and post anything you see wrong.

[mowen]

Since other services seemed to be OK, I attempted to start postfix manually. The system seemed to accept this, so I then took the following from the /var/log/zimbra.log:

Apr 26 08:22:01 zimbra CRON[22152]: (pam_unix) session opened for user zimbra by (uid=0)
Apr 26 08:22:03 zimbra zmtomcatmgr[22249]: status requested
Apr 26 08:22:03 zimbra zmtomcatmgr[22249]: status OK
Apr 26 08:22:03 zimbra postfix/postqueue[22263]: fatal: Connect to the Postfix showq service: Permission denied
Apr 26 08:22:04 zimbra zimbramon[22153]: 22153:info: 2007-04-26 08:22:01, STATUS: zimbra.wnsc.ac.uk: antispam: Running
Apr 26 08:22:04 zimbra zimbramon[22153]: 22153:info: 2007-04-26 08:22:01, STATUS: zimbra.wnsc.ac.uk: antivirus: Running
Apr 26 08:22:04 zimbra zimbramon[22153]: 22153:info: 2007-04-26 08:22:01, STATUS: zimbra.wnsc.ac.uk: ldap: Running
Apr 26 08:22:04 zimbra zimbramon[22153]: 22153:info: 2007-04-26 08:22:01, STATUS: zimbra.wnsc.ac.uk: logger: Running
Apr 26 08:22:04 zimbra zimbramon[22153]: 22153:info: 2007-04-26 08:22:01, STATUS: zimbra.wnsc.ac.uk: mailbox: Running
Apr 26 08:22:04 zimbra zimbramon[22153]: 22153:info: 2007-04-26 08:22:01, STATUS: zimbra.wnsc.ac.uk: mta: Stopped
Apr 26 08:22:04 zimbra zimbramon[22153]: 22153:info: 2007-04-26 08:22:01, STATUS: zimbra.wnsc.ac.uk: snmp: Running
Apr 26 08:22:04 zimbra zimbramon[22153]: 22153:info: 2007-04-26 08:22:01, STATUS: zimbra.wnsc.ac.uk: spell: Running
Apr 26 08:22:04 zimbra CRON[22152]: (pam_unix) session closed for user zimbra

After reading some posts & seeing the 'permissions denied, I tried (as user zimbra) to fix the permissions to see if that helped: /opt/zimbra/libexec/zmfixperms & then stopped & started postfix -
Same results in the log.

--
Mark

[mowen]

After a bit of fiddling, managed to mess things up so uninstalled zimbra (since it is a fresh install system), cleared the zimbra.log and re-installed. Once complete, logged into the admin GUI and server status showed mta stopped.
zimbra.log runs to about 370 lines, so will show snippets:

. . .
Apr 26 23:47:38 zimbra clamd[7597]: Self checking every 1800 seconds.
Apr 26 23:47:38 zimbra postfix/postqueue[7608]: fatal: Connect to the Postfix showq service: Permission denied
Apr 26 23:47:39 zimbra amavis[7556]: starting. /opt/zimbra/amavisd/sbin/amavisd at zimbra.wnsc.ac.uk amavisd-new-2.4.3 (20060930), Unicode aware, LANG=C
Apr 26 23:47:39 zimbra amavis[7556]: user=1001, EUID: 1001 (1001); group=, EGID: 1001 1002 1001 5 4 (1001 1002 1001 5 4); log_level=1
Apr 26 23:47:39 zimbra amavis[7556]: Perl version 5.008008
Apr 26 23:47:40 zimbra postfix/postfix-script: warning: not owned by root: /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.2.9/conf/main.cf
Apr 26 23:47:40 zimbra amavis[7556]: SpamControl: init_pre_chroot done
Apr 26 23:47:40 zimbra amavis[7650]: Net::Server: Process Backgrounded
Apr 26 23:47:40 zimbra amavis[7650]: Net::Server: 2007/04/26-23:47:40 Amavis (type Net::Server::PreForkSimple) starting! pid(7650)
Apr 26 23:47:40 zimbra amavis[7650]: Net::Server: Binding to UNIX socket file /opt/zimbra/amavisd/amavisd.sock using SOCK_STREAM
Apr 26 23:47:40 zimbra amavis[7650]: Net::Server: Binding to TCP port 10024 on host 127.0.0.1
Apr 26 23:47:40 zimbra amavis[7650]: Net::Server: Group Not Defined. Defaulting to EGID '1001 1002 1001 5 4'
Apr 26 23:47:40 zimbra amavis[7650]: Net::Server: User Not Defined. Defaulting to EUID '1001'

. . .

Apr 26 23:47:40 zimbra postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system
Apr 26 23:47:40 zimbra postfix/master[7660]: daemon started -- version 2.2.9, configuration /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.2.9/conf
Apr 26 23:47:40 zimbra su[7125]: (pam_unix) session closed for user zimbra
Apr 26 23:47:40 zimbra saslauthd[7672]: detach_tty : master pid is: 7672
Apr 26 23:47:40 zimbra saslauthd[7672]: ipc_init : listening on socket: /opt/zimbra/cyrus-sasl-2.1.21.ZIMBRA/state/mux
Apr 26 23:47:40 zimbra su[7673]: (pam_unix) session opened for user zimbra by (uid=0)
Apr 26 23:47:40 zimbra amavis[7650]: SpamControl: initializing Mail::SpamAssassin
Apr 26 23:47:41 zimbra amavis[7650]: SpamControl: init_pre_fork done
Apr 26 23:47:42 zimbra zmtomcatmgr[7783]: status requested
Apr 26 23:47:42 zimbra zmtomcatmgr[7783]: status OK
Apr 26 23:47:42 zimbra postfix/postqueue[7797]: fatal: Connect to the Postfix showq service: Permission denied
Apr 26 23:47:44 zimbra su[7673]: (pam_unix) session closed for user zimbra

. . .

Apr 26 23:48:03 zimbra zmtomcatmgr[8378]: status OK
Apr 26 23:48:04 zimbra postfix/postqueue[8392]: fatal: Connect to the Postfix showq service: Permission denied
Apr 26 23:48:04 zimbra su[8292]: (pam_unix) session closed for user zimbra
Apr 26 23:48:04 zimbra su[8396]: (pam_unix) session opened for user zimbra by (uid=0)
Apr 26 23:48:05 zimbra zimbramon[8255]: 8255:info: 2007-04-26 23:48:01, STATUS: zimbra.wnsc.ac.uk: antispam: Running
Apr 26 23:48:05 zimbra zimbramon[8255]: 8255:info: 2007-04-26 23:48:01, STATUS: zimbra.wnsc.ac.uk: antivirus: Running
Apr 26 23:48:05 zimbra zimbramon[8255]: 8255:info: 2007-04-26 23:48:01, STATUS: zimbra.wnsc.ac.uk: ldap: Running
Apr 26 23:48:05 zimbra zimbramon[8255]: 8255:info: 2007-04-26 23:48:01, STATUS: zimbra.wnsc.ac.uk: logger: Running
Apr 26 23:48:05 zimbra zimbramon[8255]: 8255:info: 2007-04-26 23:48:01, STATUS: zimbra.wnsc.ac.uk: mailbox: Running
Apr 26 23:48:05 zimbra zimbramon[8255]: 8255:info: 2007-04-26 23:48:01, STATUS: zimbra.wnsc.ac.uk: mta: Stopped
Apr 26 23:48:05 zimbra zimbramon[8255]: 8255:info: 2007-04-26 23:48:01, STATUS: zimbra.wnsc.ac.uk: snmp: Running
Apr 26 23:48:05 zimbra zimbramon[8255]: 8255:info: 2007-04-26 23:48:01, STATUS: zimbra.wnsc.ac.uk: spell: Running
Apr 26 23:48:05 zimbra CRON[8254]: (pam_unix) session closed for user zimbra

There were some similar sections with these 'permissions denied' lines.

[jholder]

Well,
You should probably check to see if you have something running on port 25. If you don't think so, check again.

Then look to see if you have iptables/nat/ or any sort of network service routing going.

Permission denied doesn't only mean that you don't have privledges. . .it can simply mean that it can't bind. Misleading, I know

[mowen]

OK - with zimbra stopped (zmcontrol stop), netstat -a produced nothing for port 25. Telnetting to port 25 produced no connection. Using 'iptables -L' produced nothing. What should I look for to check NAT rules?

Restarted zimbra & checked again.

netstat -an | grep 25 produced
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:10025 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp6 0 0 :::7025 :::* LISTEN
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 112125 public/cleanup
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 112257

so something is listening on port 25. Telnetted to port 25 (telnet localhost 25) and got the following output:
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 zimbra.wnsc.ac.uk ESMTP Postfix

So, I presume postfix is listening - still showing as stopped on the Admin GUI


--
Mark

[jholder]

What about SELinux?

Try a service iptables stop
zmcontrol start

[mowen]

The server is using Ubuntu - I haven't installed SELinux (& couldn't find an indication that it's there)

Not sure how to stop iptables in ubuntu - tried iptables -F to flush any rules.
Will do some more research after tea.

--
Mark

[mowen]

OK - apparently, the equivalent to Fedora's 'service iptables stop' for Ubuntu is

iptables -F
iptables -X
iptables -t nat -F
iptables -t nat -X
iptables -t mangle -F
iptables -t mangle -X
iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT
iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT
iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT

not quite as concise

I've done that, followed by zmcontrol start - mta still stopped!

--
Mark

[anotherseed]

Hi,
Debian uses init.d service scripts (well, Ubuntu uses Upstart but it's compatible). So you should be able to do,

sudo /etc/init.d/iptables restart | stop | start

or other things like

sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils force-reload

to start and stop services