Marko Weber | ZBF: > > when i change a cidr map, > do i have to "reload" postfix like on chnages by texthash? > > i was on http://www.postfix.org/cidr_table.5.html > and cant find that info.
It is safe to assume that if you change a file, then a "reload" will be needed. cidr is like texthash, pcre and regexp: these tables are read into memory and then closed, so they don't have a file handle to access the file after entering a chroot jail and/or dropping privileges. With other files that remain open, Postfix daemons try to detect if it has changed and will voluntarily terminate. There is no manpage for every Postfix table type so that would not be the place to document whether a reload is desired. For example there is no manpage for hash, btree, dbm, and texthash. That leaves DATABASE_README.html, and the postconf manpage text for the "-m" option. Would you have found it if it was documented there? Wietse