System.log entry?

[jbarley]

This entry shows in my System.Log repeatedly,
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Dec 21 09:36:35 MacBook-Pro com.apple.launchd[1] (org.postfix.master): Failed to count the number of files in "/var/spool/postfix/maildrop": No such file or directory
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Can anyone shed some light on what it means, and maybe how to correct it?

jb.

 

[Giaguara]

Have you enabled or ported Postfix or Mailman? It (Postfix) can't find maildrop. Maybe it's partially not enabled.
Or maybe Time Machine was running while these lines in system.log occurred?

 

[jbarley]

Thanks for the reply.
I know nothing of Postfix or Mailman, none of my doings.
I'm running a stock install of Leopard on my MBP.
All I show under the folder /var is a /cups folder.
Is there something I could remove from LaunchD to make it stop checking or trying to count?

jb.

 

[jbarley]

That whole subfolder structure after /var was missing.
I did an Archive&install and all appears well now.
I have no idea where those subfolders went, but they are all back in place now.

jb.

 

[Giaguara]

Hm. Did you first time do upgrade install? (well solved now but I'm still curious how /var could be misisng..)

 

[jbarley]

Hm. Did you first time do upgrade install? (well solved now but I'm still curious how /var could be misisng..)

No to the upgrade, I always reformat and do clean installs with operating system upgrades.
What I have done though is, at least twice, is total restores from Time Machine backups.
Maybe a problem there, like something left behind.

jb.