On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Gary Smith wrote: > A client uses hash files for transport and access on a couple relays. When > I need to make a change to one of these files I typically just edit it and > then do a postmap whatever. On one of the machines it doesn't seem to > pickup the change until I restart postfix (it's an older machine with an > older version of postfix on it -- which I'm working on the upgrade plan > for). > > Can someone confirm that we only need to postmap something and not restart > the entire subsystem? At least, that's been my understanding for years > anyway.
>From DATABASE_README: If you change a local file based database such as DBM or Berkeley DB, there is no need to execute "postfix reload". Postfix uses file locking to avoid read/write access conflicts, and whenever a Postfix daemon process. notices that a file has changed it will terminate before handling the next client request, so that a new process can initialize with the new database. By any chance, are you "testing" the change by using the same lookup key? -- Sahil Tandon <sa...@tandon.net>
