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So I run Debian 6 and have installed and configured postfix...the problem is postfix starts normally when I start it with:

sudo service postfix start

but if I reboot the server it won't. I have checked the log and this is the error it gives:

Jun 10 06:18:51 VPS postfix[1567]: fatal: the postfix command must not run as a set-uid process

How can I fix this?

When I do:

update-rc.d postfix start 20 2 3 4 5

I get this output:

update-rc.d: using dependency based boot sequencing
update-rc.d: warning: postfix stop runlevel arguments (none) do not match LSB Default-Stop values (0 1 6)
insserv: can not symlink(../init.d/vzquota, ../rc0.d/S03vzquota): File exists
insserv: can not symlink(../init.d/vzquota, ../rc1.d/S03vzquota): File exists
insserv: can not symlink(../init.d/vzquota, ../rc2.d/S03vzquota): File exists
insserv: can not symlink(../init.d/vzquota, ../rc3.d/S03vzquota): File exists
insserv: can not symlink(../init.d/vzquota, ../rc4.d/S03vzquota): File exists
insserv: can not symlink(../init.d/vzquota, ../rc5.d/S03vzquota): File exists
insserv: can not symlink(../init.d/vzquota, ../rc6.d/S03vzquota): File exists
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  • How did you install postfix? Manually or by repos?
    – Bart Silverstrim
    Jun 11, 2012 at 13:26
  • Do You have sendmail installed?
    – Alan
    Jun 11, 2012 at 13:27
  • Bart by repo, @Alan no sendmail is not installed
    – Veles
    Jun 11, 2012 at 13:57

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Postfix/sendmail may not be owned by root and/or set-uid bit enabled.

http://www.gti.net/mirrors/postfix/faq.html#nosuid

Postfix should be owned by dedicated user.

I think you should re-install completely postfix, there may be other configuration issues.

try

apt-get --purge remove postfix

or

aptitude remove postfix*

Then follow this article to install it in correct way.

If problem if that it not start at startup try to configure service as follows:

update-rc.d postfix start 20 2 3 4 5
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  • Done all that...the error is still there...
    – Veles
    Jun 11, 2012 at 13:55
  • can you do ls -l on sendmail and postfix binary and share it with us?
    – user106666
    Jun 11, 2012 at 13:59
  • rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9500 May 4 2011 /usr/sbin/postfix, sendmail is not installed
    – Veles
    Jun 11, 2012 at 14:06

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