On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 01:43:19AM +0200, li...@rhsoft.net wrote:

> just generate your map file in a temp folder, map it there and move both
> files to /etc/postfix, you can easily do that for a lot of map files and
> only if the result have changed compared with the ones in /etc/postfix move
> them at the end and isse a one time reload

This is brittle advice, since "temp folder" would typically be read
as "/tmp", which is often a different file-system than /etc/postfix,
and mv(1) is NOT atomic across file-systems.

It is best to use a temp-file in /etc/postfix, which is renamed
without moving across directories.

-- 
        Viktor.

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