SMTP failure

[cp2000]

I'm trying to setup a RH8 server with postfix 2.0.10. Just when I thoughti had everything in order I find that postfix is can't find SMTP.
the error from the maillog is:
Jun 4 23:05:34 iwapps3 postfix/smtp[3312]: fatal: unknown service: smtp/tcp
Jun 4 23:05:34 iwapps3 postfix/smtp[3313]: fatal: unknown service: smtp/tcp
Jun 4 23:05:35 iwapps3 postfix/nqmgr[3169]: warning: premature end-of-input on private/smtp socket while reading input attribute name
Jun 4 23:05:35 iwapps3 postfix/nqmgr[3169]: warning: private/smtp socket: malformed response
Jun 4 23:05:35 iwapps3 postfix/nqmgr[3169]: warning: transport smtp failure -- see a previous warning/fatal/panic logfile record for the problem description
Jun 4 17:05:35 iwapps3 postfix/master[2552]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/smtp pid 3312 exit status 1
Jun 4 17:05:35 iwapps3 postfix/master[2552]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/smtp: bad command startup -- throttling

I can provide the main.cf file but it's fairly lengthy.

I would appreciate any help

 

[aixmurderer]

Have a look in your /etc/services file, there should be an entry for port 25:

smtp 25/tcp mail

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[cp2000]

I actually did check that...Gues I should of Listed the troubleshooting I did. Because It was a new system (and I as pressed for time), I simply reformatted the system and reloaded from scratch. That seems to have resolved this particular problem.

I still have several others but I probably should list those on a seperate thread.

Thanks anyway...