Script: mailback doesn’t restart Postfix

[Kayners]

Hello,

I’m using the mailback script generously provided by AFP548. There’s a function for starting Postfix back up, but it’s not working. Here’s the function:

# this starts the mail system
#

start_server() {
echo “Starting the mail system”
/usr/sbin/serveradmin start mail

# sometimes serveradmin is dumb and doesn’t start postfix
# if it’s already running this should just error nicely
# although we send it to /dev/null anyway
postfix start 2> /dev/null
echo done
}

If I issue the command “sudo /usr/sbin/serveradmin start mail” in the terminal, it does start up, but that’s after I’ve returned in the morning and we’ve missed a bunch of mail.

Is there some way to make this work within the script so we don’t lose mail?

Steve.

[Kayners]

Thanks Joel.

I just copied the first start item (i.e. serveradmin) into a new script and run that one minute later via cron. That worked for last night.

Seems like it’s a timing issue, since it will start OK if run the command from the terminal, or after the mailback script has finished.

It’s just an Xserve 1.33DP. I wouldn’t think that’s too fast.

Steve.

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