postfix/master master.lock: permission denied

[Wade Smart]

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 21:24, Siggy Brentrup <ubuntu at psycho.i21k.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 21:03 -0500, Wade Smart wrote:
>> I just installed fetchmail/postfix/dovecot (not the postfix-dovecot setup) and
>> I have the error:
>>
>> postfix/master[9595]: fatal: open lock file
>> /var/lib/postfix/master.lock: cannot open file: Permission denied.
>>
>> master.lock owner is Dovecot with -rw------ permissions.
>
> After rethinking: this file for sure belongs under postfix/master's
> realm so dovecot seems to break postfix.  File a bug report against
> dovecot.
>
> Regs
>  Siggy
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I was looking at these files and I finally decided to just delete them.
I started postfix this morning and -- it worked.

I wonder if those files were from the dovecot-postfix ubuntu install that I did.
When I have installed them separately in the past, I did have those
files present.

Wade
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