How do i get the system status to show dovecot and postfix monitors?
At present neither are displaying.
From the information below, postfix is running, however, no matter what i try, dovecot continues to fail (i have tried to kill process and restart twice all to no avail. My feeling is that i will have to do a hard reset on the webserver?)
service dovecot status
● dovecot.service - Dovecot IMAP/POP3 email server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/dovecot.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2019-03-19 21:28:54 AEDT; 13min ago
Docs: man:dovecot(1)
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/
Process: 6439 ExecStop=/usr/bin/doveadm stop (code=exited, status=75)
Process: 12474 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/dovecot (code=exited, status=89)
Main PID: 664 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Mar 19 21:28:54 server1.mydomain.com systemd[1]: Starting Dovecot IMAP/POP3 email server…
Mar 19 21:28:54 server1.mydomain.com dovecot[12474]: Fatal: Dovecot is already running with PID 6444 (read from /var/run/dovecot/master.pid)
Mar 19 21:28:54 server1.mydomain.com dovecot[12474]: master: Fatal: Dovecot is already running with PID 6444 (read from /var/run/dovecot/master.pid)
Mar 19 21:28:54 server1.mydomain.com systemd[1]: dovecot.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=89
Mar 19 21:28:54 server1.mydomain.com systemd[1]: Failed to start Dovecot IMAP/POP3 email server.
Mar 19 21:28:54 server1.mydomain.com systemd[1]: dovecot.service: Unit entered failed state.
Mar 19 21:28:54 server1.mydomain.com systemd[1]: dovecot.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
[root@server1 ~]# service postfix status
● postfix.service - Postfix Mail Transport Agent
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/postfix.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (exited) since Sat 2019-03-16 09:42:56 AEDT; 3 days ago
Main PID: 1138 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Tasks: 0 (limit: 4915)
CGroup: /system.slice/postfix.service
Warning: Journal has been rotated since unit was started. Log output is incomplete or unavailable.