postfix no local interface found
When starting postfix it failed with following error
[root@cloud1 etc]# service postfix start Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start postfix.service Job for postfix.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status postfix.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. [root@cloud1 etc]# service postfix status Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status postfix.service ● postfix.service - Postfix Mail Transport Agent Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/postfix.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2017-12-04 09:13:07 UTC; 4s ago Process: 21324 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/postfix start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Process: 21322 ExecStartPre=/usr/libexec/postfix/chroot-update (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 21319 ExecStartPre=/usr/libexec/postfix/aliasesdb (code=exited, status=75) Dec 04 09:13:05 cloud1.serverok.in systemd[1]: Starting Postfix Mail Transport Agent... Dec 04 09:13:05 cloud1.serverok.in aliasesdb[21319]: /usr/sbin/postconf: fatal: parameter inet_interfaces: no local interface found for ::1 Dec 04 09:13:06 cloud1.serverok.in aliasesdb[21319]: newaliases: fatal: parameter inet_interfaces: no local interface found for ::1 Dec 04 09:13:06 cloud1.serverok.in postfix[21324]: fatal: parameter inet_interfaces: no local interface found for ::1 Dec 04 09:13:07 cloud1.serverok.in systemd[1]: postfix.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1 Dec 04 09:13:07 cloud1.serverok.in systemd[1]: Failed to start Postfix Mail Transport Agent. Dec 04 09:13:07 cloud1.serverok.in systemd[1]: Unit postfix.service entered failed state. Dec 04 09:13:07 cloud1.serverok.in systemd[1]: postfix.service failed. [root@cloud1 etc]#
To fix, edit /etc/postfix/main.cf
Find
#inet_interfaces = all #inet_interfaces = $myhostname #inet_interfaces = $myhostname, localhost inet_interfaces = localhost
Replace with
inet_interfaces = all
See postfix