I’m going to submit this Apple as well, but perhaps someone here has seen this. When starting and stopping the mail service, it appears Server Admin has gotten completely confused.
When Postfix is running (confirmed using ‘ps’), and I click “stop service”, the following entries are created in my mail.log:
Oct 21 09:24:23 netmac postfix/postfix-script: stopping the Postfix mail system
Oct 21 09:24:23 netmac postfix/master[20009]: terminating on signal 15
Oct 21 09:24:23 netmac postfix/master[20029]: daemon started — version 2.0.10
It appears that Postfix merely restarts. Now I’ve got postfix running, but Server Admin gives me the option to “start service”. Doing so produces…
Oct 21 09:25:41 netmac postfix/postfix-script: stopping the Postfix mail system
Oct 21 09:25:41 netmac postfix/master[20068]: terminating on signal 15
So now Postfix is shutdown, and all I’ve got is the option to stop it.
If I keep starting/stopping the service enough, it will eventually get its act together, but this is annoying. I can start the service by hand (postfix start), but I don’t want to rely on this either.
Does anyone know what script is called when you start/stop the service using Server Admin? Or has anyone experienced this behavior before?
Thanks,
Norman