On Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 09:40 CEST,
Thomas Glanzmann <tho...@glanzmann.de> wrote:
> a week ago I had a problem with a productive e-mail server rejecting
> e-mail because an automatic configuration tool (cfengine) failed on me
> and rolled out the wrong configuration file. After a very short amount
> of time (less than an hour) postfix picked up the new configuration
> file. About an hour later cfengine fixed the problem it caused by
> redistributing the right configuration file. Postfix took a while to
> reload the right configuration file again. I already fixed the
> shortcoming in cfengine by writing a parser for file distribution that
> can't fail or at least can't break anything while failing. However I
> would like to know if there is configuration option that tells postfix
> to do not automatically reload it's configuration file.
No. By design Postfix daemons periodically commit suicide and, when
restarted, have no option but to read the configuration files.
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Magnus Bäck
mag...@dsek.lth.se
