ish-app / ish-app/ish

The postfix MTA fails to start

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Description

Postfix is a Mail Transit Agent. It fails to start with he following error...

postfix: fatal: inet_addr_local[siocgif]: ioctl SIOCGIFCONF: Not a tty

Nothing in dmesg.

To reproduce...

apk add postfix
/usr/sbin/postfix start

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Research direction

Start by reproducing the failure with `apk add postfix` followed by `/usr/sbin/postfix start`, and use the reported `SIOCGIFCONF` error as the entry point. Done means Postfix starts successfully without this fatal error; the issue does not name a source file or test to guide further investigation.

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Assessment

Domain
operating-systems
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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