CentOS - Jan 2009 - postfix startup issue - CentOS 5.2

Hi

I am trying to get postfix going on a friends VPS however after 
installing on startup i see this

Jan 27 11:15:13 postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system
Jan 27 11:15:13 postfix/master[28090]: fatal: pipe: Cannot allocate memory

and a top gives

Tasks:  23 total,   1 running,  22 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  
0.0%st
Mem:    524288k total,   160920k used,   363368k free,        0k buffers
Swap:        0k total,        0k used,        0k free,        0k cached

any clue?

thanks

# uname -i
Linux 2.6.18-028stab059.6 #1 SMP Fri Nov 14 14:01:22 MSK 2008 i686 i686 
i386 GNU/Linux

# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 5.2 (Final)

Hi 

Have you checked /etc/hosts to see if it is correct?

Per


On 1/27/09 12:28 PM, "Tom Brown" <tom at ng23.net> wrote:
> Jan 27 11:15:13 postfix/master[28090]: fatal: pipe: Cannot allocate memory

>
> Have you checked /etc/hosts to see if it is correct?
>
>   
it does seem correct yes

Tom Brown wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am trying to get postfix going on a friends VPS however after 
> installing on startup i see this
> 
> Jan 27 11:15:13 postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system
> Jan 27 11:15:13 postfix/master[28090]: fatal: pipe: Cannot allocate memory
You are out of open files on the system. Or out of available sockets.
> # uname -i
> Linux 2.6.18-028stab059.6 #1 SMP Fri Nov 14 14:01:22 MSK 2008 i686 i686 
> i386 GNU/Linux
That sounds like a good idea. stab your vps provider, because your
system seems to be very limited regarding the number of files and/or
sockets you can open.

Ralph
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Tom Brown wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am trying to get postfix going on a friends VPS however after 
> installing on startup i see this
> 
<snip>
> 
> # uname -i
> Linux 2.6.18-028stab059.6 #1 SMP Fri Nov 14 14:01:22 MSK 2008 i686 i686 
> i386 GNU/Linux
> 
That's not a CentOS kernel.
> # cat /etc/redhat-release
> CentOS release 5.2 (Final)
Please see this page:

http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/BrokenVserver

Tom Brown wrote on Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:28:06 +0000:
> Linux 2.6.18-028stab059.6
This is not CentOS 5.2, this is an OpenVZ kernel. You should contact the 
vendor with this problem, I'm sure it's related to it being a
"VPS".

Kai

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