Postfix removed but still errors to log

[redbull666]

I recently installed and later removed Postfix. However, I am now seeing errors in the logs, seemingly Postfix did not get removed or cleaned up properly?

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2022-02-25T18:08:08 Warning postfix/master warning: /usr/local/libexec/postfix/pickup: bad command startup -- throttling
2022-02-25T18:08:08 Warning postfix/master warning: process /usr/local/libexec/postfix/pickup pid 50581 exit status 1
2022-02-25T18:08:08 Warning postfix/master warning: /usr/local/libexec/postfix/qmgr: bad command startup -- throttling
2022-02-25T18:08:08 Warning postfix/master warning: process /usr/local/libexec/postfix/qmgr pid 50816 exit status 1
2022-02-25T18:08:07 Critical master fatal: master_spawn: exec /usr/local/libexec/postfix/qmgr: No such file or directory
2022-02-25T18:08:07 Critical master fatal: master_spawn: exec /usr/local/libexec/postfix/pickup: No such file or directory

Will try to reinstall it again and disable it.

[redbull666]

Reinstall --> disable --> remove.

No more log errors. So not sure that is working as intended?

[franco]

If you remove a running service from the system it will still run and try to spawn new processes. Postfix does exactly that although it can't find its binaries anymore.


Cheers,
Franco