This issue could happen to any other service but in this case its commssioning Postfix - it seems i can't stop postfix as the PID relates to another service - i've delete the 'master.lock' but to no available - any ideas, memeory commands etc ?
thanks in advance
ps. the serve is in Production so i have to proceed with cautio n
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server1 init.d]# ./postfix status
master (pid 2370) is running...
[root@server1 init.d]# ps -ef | grep 2370
root 2370 2341 0 2015 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-input: Listening on /dev/input/event0
[/var/lib/postfix] cat master.lock
2370
[root@server1 postfix]# service postfix stop
Shutting down postfix: [FAILED]
...rm master.lock....
[root@server1 postfix]# service postfix start
[root@server1 postfix]# service postfix status
master (pid 2370) is running...
[/var/lib/postfix]
# ls -l
total 0