On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:25 PM, Wietse Venema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Some third-party library is calling stuff before Postfix chroots. > > Postfix does not support chroot environments that are out of sync > with the host environment; I am not going to jump hoops to make > that possible. > > If you want Postfix to use a different resolver, use main.cf's > export_environment parameter to override resolver settings if > possible, run the whole lot in a FreeBSD jail, in a Solaris zone, > or in a Linux virtual server partition.
I wasn't looking for hoop jumping, just further insight, which you've provided. I guess I'd interpreted all of the chroot documentation slightly incorrectly - wherever it says to include necessary files, at the very least /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf, I insinuated that they would definitely be used. In actuality it's because they might be used, and in some cases in a version of *nix that behaved differently (probably BSD) they were necessary - in my current linux incarnation, not so much. Thanks for the heads up on the export_environment idea, I'll pursue that before virtualizing the entire application. thanks! b
