On 06/03/2012 21:10, Wietse Venema wrote:
Eray Aslan:
On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 11:48:35AM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote:
I think that making everyone wait would be another example of
well-meaning people doing things that give Postfix a bad reputation.
postfix start exits successfully but postfix doesn't work, resulting in a
WTF moment for the user. I am not sure if this is a recommended way to
start a daemon. It surprises them - hence the original email.
According to the original complaint, no error was logged, and the
system claimed that the mail system was running.
sorry for the delay i was working the whole day on the mail system (that
works perfect for the last 4 plus years based on postfix..it's that good)
i indeed found this log entry but it was difficult cause of the huge
amount of mail.log by other mail service.
so i have used postfix start (not script)to start postfix and i got the
error on log but it shows only once and then every time it saying
something that i cant remember right now (side of effect of working on
crisis mode for the last couple of weeks).
anyway postfix check command didnt showed any information about this
problem.
Thanks
Eliezer
If they had looked in the right logfile, and if they had used the
"postfix status" command, all this WTF would have been unnecessary.
They also claimed they had to to reboot their system to clear up
the problem.
All this indicates that they have no clue. Going for the lowest
common denominator is not sufficient moditivation to make changes
that cause everyone else to suffer.
Wietse
