xymon-bounces at xymon.com schrieb am 08.11.2011 10:57:56:

Hi Henrik,

thank you for the prompt response:

xymon-bounces at xymon.com

On 08-11-2011 10:17, Hermann-Josef Beckers wrote:

...

send-mail: fatal: parameter inet_interfaces: no local interface found for ::1

Not really a Xymon issue. Doing a google with that error message, the first hit is

http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/network- internet/436441-postfix-error-message.html

which begins with

Noticed in logs messages (ESC on boot) that postfix is failing
every time I boot. Only error I find in logs is:

Apr 3 07:05:04 linux-7utx postfix[3788]: fatal: parameter
inet_interfaces: no local interface found for ::1

and ends with

i solved this by setting in /etc/postfix/main.cf

inet_protocols = ipv4 inet_interfaces = all

Does that help ?

setting inet_protocols from "all" to "ipv4" did the trick. inet_interfaces is "localhost". But my postfix main.cf file had a modification date of 2010-09-29?

Thanks again.

Yours hjb

"Phil Crooker" <Phil.Crooker at orix.com.au> schrieb am 09.11.2011 01:47:52:

Hi Phil,

Von: ...

...

setting inet_protocols from "all" to "ipv4" did the trick. inet_interfaces is "localhost". But my postfix main.cf file had a modification date of 2010-09-29?

Itis probably in the /etc/hosts file - that is where postfix looks for the host name - main.cf probably had localhost for the inet_interfaces parameter and no corresponding entry in the hosts file.

Yes, /etc/hosts contains "::1 localhost ipv6-localhost ipv6-loopback", but its modification date is from 2011-05-27. This server is rebooted once a week, so postfix should have complained earlier ...

Yours hjb