Comments on: First Week With Tiger

By: boolean

boolean — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 16:49:49 +0000

Please see: http://www.n3wb.com/boolean/archives/2005/08/living-with-tiger/

for further discussion on the postfix issue.

A fix is listed here:

http://www.n3wb.com/boolean/archives/2005/08/living-with-tiger/

(thanks to Simon Heywood for catching that)

By: boolean

boolean — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 11:58:59 +0000

It could be one of those programs, or it could be starting apache. As pab mentioned to me yesterday, he ran software update and that cleared the problem up for him.

By: Simon Heywood

Simon Heywood — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 11:50:29 +0000

Hello. Found a link to this site on the Apple Discussions pages after searching for the postfix error. So I’d just like to say thanks for the comments that mention how to fix it.

Oddly enough I got this when I first *upgraded* to Tiger so did and *archive and install* instead and the problem went away. It’s just reappeared. The only thing I’ve done recently is installed MYSQL and WordPress so maybe its one of these two that have prompted Postfix to start-up.

By: pab

pab — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:33:22 +0000

I just installed Tiger in an empty partition that already existed on my G4 desktop. The next day after upgrading my system I began to notice my disk-access light flashing and hearing my disk head moving.
Someone on another list suggested running console and looking at messages written there. Well to my surprise I saw what I now know was the postfix error message showing up every second or so.

I tried everything I could think of to fix it, including restoring privileges, manually stopping postfix, writing MAILSERVER=-NO- line in /etc/hostconfig, and nothing worked. Then someone pointed me to this list and I learned about the launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.postfix.master.plist and
sudo /etc/postfix/post-install set-permissions suggested fixes.

I haven’t tried either yet, I’ve bounced back to Panther, but will be doing so soon. I just wanted to let people know that this problem is widespread, and that I am very happy to have discovered this site!

By: boolean

boolean — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 20:04:13 +0000

did you execute it using sudo?

By: bilbo baggins

bilbo baggins — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 19:18:38 +0000

When I try launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.postfix.master.plist

I get the following response:

launchctl: CFURLWriteDataAndPropertiesToResource(/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.postfix.master.plist) failed: -10
No such process

By: boolean

boolean — Sat, 28 May 2005 06:42:02 +0000

Interesting. Did you look at the contents of the mail files? It’d be interesting to know what put them there.

My powerbook was empty, at least.

… also, nice site. Is B.Mac gone in Montreal as well?

By: MTEQC

MTEQC — Fri, 27 May 2005 18:00:59 +0000

The command worked:
launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.postfix.master.plist

furthermore, there was a few files in the folder:
/private/var/spool/postfix/maildrop

Having files in there is what I think activates postfix; since Postfix was not setup to work, that’s why I got all the errors. No idea why there were files in there…