On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 12:30 Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> wrote:
> Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The contents of the postfix.service file are; > ... > That unit file does effectivly nothing. It just starts "/bin/true" and > exits. > > What it *not* does is starting postfix in any way. > > This looks like there should be some other unit files which start the > other daemons belonging to postfix which depend on this unit file, so > you could easily start and stop everything with one command. > > Are you sure you only got this one unit file from the postfix developer? No, I got it from a package installation of postfix on Debian 9. So the question I have is how does it all work? There is no init.d, but there seems to be some convoluted handling that I haven't figured out yet. Surely some expert can write a postfix.service file that drives postfix commands. Any clues? Thanks. -Tom
