On 8/10/2011 3:07 PM, ricardus1867 wrote: > > I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 and I installed Postfix 2.8.4 from Christian > Roessner's PPA.
I just went through the Debian 6.x Postfix 2.7.1 init script, and I'm sorry to say that it appears multi instance support was never added. Christian's init script is likely the Debian init script. You may want to diff them to confirm. A working multi instance patch was submitted via the Debian bug reporting system to the package maintainer (I linked it previously IIRC), Lamont Jones, _4 years ago_, in July 2007. It was apparently never accepted, and no independent alternative was created. Lamont replied once, in Feb 2008, over 6 months after the bug report and patch were submitted, simply saying he wanted to "wait for upstream". That is the first and last entry in the bug report from the maintainer. Thus, I would assume, as long as he's the maintainer, multi instance support will never be added to the Debian init script. No reason for never implementing multi instance in Debian was given. Maybe this was discussed elsewhere and I'm simply unaware of it. -- Stan > ricardus > > > Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> >> On 8/10/2011 9:17 AM, ricardus1867 wrote: >>> >>>> Chroot and multiple instance support are, or should be, handled properly >>> by the Postfix init scripts. >>> >>> should be. Exactly! I did the re-install with a single instance, but it >>> was >>> troublesome. dpkg kept throwing errors because of some post-installation >>> modifications. The second instance effectively screwed up the usual >>> directory structure... >>> >>> Guess there were some leftovers preventing the installation script from >>> working properly. Because I didn't have those problems when I installed >>> it >>> the first time... >> >> Are you running an older version of Debian or current (Squeeze)? Or are >> you running Ubuntu? IIRC multi instance wasn't supported on Lenny (5.x) >> or prior. If that bug report was correct, multi instance was added by >> Wietse in 2.6.5. So, Squeeze, which ships with 2.7.1 would be the first >> Debian to have Postfix multi instance support. >> >> You didn't state whether you're running the Debian Postfix package or if >> you installed from source. >> >> -- >> Stan >> >> >
