amavisd fails to start on reboot, but no problems starting manually [SOLVED]

[Ryan de Laplante (personal)]

I enabled the amavis.log instead of using syslog and then rebooted.  
Same issue: just dtwo lines in the log file.  Next I tried to manually 
start amavis and got an error message:

> # /etc/init.d/amavis start
> Starting amavisd: hostname: Name or service not known
>   The value of variable $myhostname is "", but should have been
>   a fully qualified domain name; perhaps uname(3) did not provide such.
>   You must explicitly assign a FQDN of this host to variable $myhostname
>   in /etc/amavis/conf.d/05-node_id, or fix what uname(3) provides as a 
> host's
>   network name!
> (failed).

When I run uname -a I can see the FQDN, so that is a little puzzling.  I 
followed the instructions in the error message (setting $myhostname 
manually in 05-node_id) and then tried starting it again.  This time it 
worked.

Next I rebooted and amavisd started properly on its own!


Thanks,
Ryan


On 2013-04-14 4:44 AM, Jernej Porenta wrote:
> Heya,
>
> Maybe the problem is that network interfaces are not up at the time of 
> amavis startup. Check the order of startup of your services.
>
> Also you might want to try setting the log file instead of using 
> syslog, which will then show why your amavis is not starting up 
> properly during boot time.
>
> cheers, J.
>
>
>
> On 4/13/13 10:18 PM, Ryan de Laplante (personal) wrote:
>> I have a Debian 6 server running a bunch of LXC containers.  Two of the
>> containers are mail servers running
>> postfix/dovecot/amavisd-new/spamassasin/clamav, and both work well. When
>> I reboot the host machine, amavis starts in both LXC containers but one
>> of them doesn't start completely and doesn't stay running.
>>
>> This is ALL there is to see related to amavis in /var/log/mail.log after
>> being rebooted:
>>
>> Apr 13 16:03:29 mail amavis[267]: starting. /usr/sbin/amavisd-new at
>> amavisd-new-2.6.4 (20090625), Unicode aware
>> Apr 13 16:03:29 mail amavis[267]: Perl version 5.010001
>>
>> There is nothing about amavis in /var/log/mail.err or /var/log/mail.warn
>>
>> When I "ps aux | grep amavis", I can see that it is not running.
>>
>> Next I run "/etc/init.d/amavis start" and can see it start up:
>>
>> Apr 13 16:06:51 mail amavis[1377]: starting. /usr/sbin/amavisd-new at
>> mail.mydomain.com amavisd-new-2.6.4 (20090625), Unicode aware, 
>> LANG="en_US"
>> Apr 13 16:06:51 mail amavis[1377]: Perl version 5.010001
>> Apr 13 16:06:54 mail amavis[1384]: Net::Server: Group Not Defined.
>> Defaulting to EGID '109 109'
>> Apr 13 16:06:54 mail amavis[1384]: Net::Server: User Not Defined.
>> Defaulting to EUID '106'
>> Apr 13 16:06:54 mail amavis[1384]: Module Amavis::Conf 2.207
>> Apr 13 16:06:54 mail amavis[1384]: Module Archive::Zip 1.30
>> Apr 13 16:06:54 mail amavis[1384]: Module BerkeleyDB 0.42
>> Apr 13 16:06:54 mail amavis[1384]: Module Compress::Zlib 2.02
>> ...
>>
>> Notice the first line looks different than when it starts automatically
>> on server restart.   Once it's started, everything works perfectly.
>>
>> My other LXC container does not have this problem. Amavisd-new starts on
>> reboot and works fine.   I've tried to find out what's different between
>> the two servers but have no idea.  Can someone please help?
>>
>> FYI the server reports Perl is version 5.10.1
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ryan
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