Control: tag -1 + moreinfo Control: severity -1 wishlist
On Sat, 17 Oct 2015 19:58:33 +1100 Russell Coker <[email protected]> wrote:
Package: postfix Version: 2.11.3-1 Severity: normal I've just run a tutorial on setting up Postfix. One thing that can be very confusing is the different path names for chrooted vs non-chrooted programs. To solve this the following 2 commands allow the same path names to be used by chrooted parts of Postfix as are used by non-chrooted daemons. mkdir -p /var/spool/postfix/var/spool ln -s ../.. /var/spool/postfix/var/spool/postfix I think that it would be good to include this directory and sym-link in the Debian package. Then sysadmins won't have to worry about whether a Postfix service is chrooted or not as the same path will work.
Please don't do this. There should be no reason to refer to files/sockets within postfix chroot jail except of a very few specific cases (eg CAdir, which is now handled automatically). If you find yourself referring to some files in chroot, please ask if you're doing it correctly. For example, if it is about setting up ldap: or mysql: maps, please switch to proxy:ldap: or proxy:mysql: and avoid referring to things inside the chroot jail. What's the intended use case where such symlink would be useful? Thanks, /mjt
