Christian Roessner:
> Hi,
>
> > The only supported way to start Postfix is "postfix start", using
> > the commands provided with /etc/postfix/postfix-script.
> >
> > DO NOT TINKER WITH THIS.
> >
> > SUSE people discovered years ago that their home-grown approach to
> > stop Postfix would terminate a lot more processes than just Postfix.
>
> I take your warning really serious. That is the reason I wrote here to the
>- list. But it brings me to a conflict that I do not know, how to solve else.
>
> The problem with using /usr/sbin/postfix is that it starts master and upst
>-art never will have control over that process, which in my opinion it must h
>-ave.
No, that would be a mistake. For example that would break Postfix
multi-instance support, among many things.
To start Postfix, use "postfix start".
To stop Postfix, use "postfix stop".
> Can you tell me what postfix does differently while starting master, than
>-an exec call from upstart would do? Maybe if I understand more from the "beh
>-ind the scenes" I can find a solution.
Sorry, this is an internal Postfix interface. TINKERING WITH INTERNAL
INTERFACES IS NOT SUPPORTED.
If you must persist along this path then I request that you stop
distributing Postfix. I will get all the complaints about the things
that you break, and I will have to deal with the consequences for
Postfix's reputation.
Wietse
