Michael Tokarev:
> > The preferred pickup/qmgr IPC type (fifo or unix) can be a main.cf
> > parameter setting (with an OS-dependent default value, e.g., fifo
> > for Solaris and unix for everything else), and post-install can be
> > updated to edit master.cf accordingly.
>
> Maybe this is something which don't really need any configuration
> parameters, just pick up whatever is best on current OS, from prior
> knowlege. But indeed, config parameter there will do the job, and
> will even let us test easily if things have changed on solaris,
> without a need to recompile postfix.
>
> I'm a bit afraid of possible questions this change may generate
> in the future, when people will start asking "what it is for,
> why can't it be hardcoded" etc. :)
$ postconf -d|wc -l
920
No-one has complained sofar.
> > Also, mounting stuff over Postfix directories breaks the basic model
> > of how Postfix manages its files, and I definitely don't want some
> > (Linux) distro maintainer to pick up on the idea. I have enough
> > work on my hands to deal with damage control of (Linux) distro
> > maintainers.
>
> Well, I already suggested this to Debian - to mount /var/spool/postfix/run
Thank you for making my worst nightmares come true. I will do
my best to prevent this from happening, and if I find out that
they do it anyway, then I will raise hell and it won't be pretty.
Wietse
