> On Feb 1, 2016, at 3:54 AM, Curtis Villamizar <cur...@orleans.occnc.com>
> wrote:
>
> As I said to Viktor, I mistakenly thought, based on reading (maybe
> misreading) numerous web pages of documentation with no mention of a
> limitation, that the -c argument was supposed to work like -c or -cf
> in any other package. Now I know that it doesn't.
The "-c" argument absolutely works, but makes no promise that having
problematic settings in the default configuration directory will not
log any warnings.
The default configuration directory is used to determine whether the
target of the "-c" option is a secondary instance in a single command
in the start-up shell script. The lookup of just that single parameter
happens to trigger a warning on your partly configured system.
For some reason you seem to have gotten rather worked up about a nit
that really does not warrant the bother. Most people find it easier
to either compile with the preferred default, or use the default that's
compiled-in, and not have to use explicit "-c" options all the time.
The warning can be ignored, however it is expected that the default
configuration is at least minimally maintained. Postfix supports
multiple instances, so secondary instances are part of a larger
configuration via the primary instance.
Regaining some perspective would be appropriate at this point.
Good luck.
--
Viktor.
