On Nov 16, 2011, at 12:27 PM, Nick Upson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> my check on postfix and the output in /var/log/maillog are below. I don't expect some of the behaviour
>
> a) monit appears to connect to postfix twice for each cycle
>
> b) the sequence is connect, lost connection, disconnect, surely monit connects and then disconnects so the lost connections are an error postfix or monit
>
>
>
> check process postfix with pidfile "/var/spool/postfix/pid/master.pid"
> start program = "/etc/init.d/postfix start"
> stop program = "/etc/init.d/postfix stop"
> if failed host localhost port 25 type tcp then restart
>
>
> Nov 16 11:16:29 t227 postfix/smtpd[14595]: connect from localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1]
> Nov 16 11:16:29 t227 postfix/smtpd[14595]: lost connection after CONNECT from localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1]
> Nov 16 11:16:29 t227 postfix/smtpd[14595]: disconnect from localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1]
> Nov 16 11:18:29 t227 postfix/smtpd[14704]: connect from localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1]
> Nov 16 11:18:29 t227 postfix/smtpd[14704]: lost connection after CONNECT from localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1]
> Nov 16 11:18:29 t227 postfix/smtpd[14704]: disconnect from localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1]
>
> Nick Upson
>