Yesterday I ran into a situation where I tried to create a new postfix instance, but the *.proto files where missing (i.e. they were there, but in the wrong place):
# postmulti -I postfix-test -e create cp: cannot stat '/etc/postfix/main.cf.proto': No such file or directory Nevertheless the directories were created: # ls -ld /etc/postfix-test/ /var/lib/postfix-test/ /var/spool/postfix-test/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 24. Sep 08:39 /etc/postfix-test/ drwx------ 2 root root 4096 24. Sep 08:39 /var/lib/postfix-test/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 24. Sep 08:39 /var/spool/postfix-test/ But when I tried to remove them, postmulti claimed there wasn't an instance named postfix-test: # postmulti -i postfix-test -e destroy postmulti: fatal: No instance named postfix-test This left me in a kind of deadlock and I had to remove the directories manually. I think there should be a 'better way' to handle this. What comes to mind is: - Test if the required files are present. Create the instance if they are present. Do not create the instance if they are absent and tell so. - Delete the instance if the directories are present. I can't tell which is better or if there's another approach that handles such a situation even more gracefully. But I think the current way to handle this should be improved. p@rick P.S: And yes, I told the package maintainer about the missing files: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=561278 -- [*] sys4 AG https://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 Franziskanerstraße 15, 81669 München Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Marc Schiffbauer Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Florian Kirstein
