fatal: the Postfix mail system is already running

[Pete]

Rosaldo Garcia wrote:

>Im totally lost in here could somebody help me ? I have running postfix and
>ived just installed Mailscanner with the procedure on this links
>http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/install/postfix.shtml, how come
>when i executed this command :
>        Start the incoming Postfix
>        postfix -c /etc/postfix.in start
>        Start the outgoing Postfix
>        postfix -c /etc/postfix start
>        Start MailScanner
>        check_MailScanner
>
>I have this error logs " Mar  5 08:21:51 mail postfix/postfix-script: fatal:
>the Postfix mail system is already running"
>
>it seems that "postfix -c /etc/postfix start" already run with the previous
>command?
>
>
>Any help is much appreciated.
>
>
>-Ross
>
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Which OS are you running? If its red hat simply do #service MailScanner
start|restart|reload|stop