[Xymon] Alerts don't go out

[Phil Crooker]

> 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.

>>> On 8/11/2011 at 9:07 PM, in message
<OF8B57A81C.96DA478F-ONC1257942.00372404-C1257942.0037E0B1 at kreis-steinfurt.de>,
"Hermann-Josef Beckers" <hj.beckers at kreis-steinfurt.de> wrote:
> 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