Stephen Satchell:
> On 12/19/2017 05:25 AM, Wietse Venema wrote:
> > As for forgrounding, this must happen only after the 'postfix
> > check' sanity checks and repairs complete sucessfully. Running a
> > 'bare' master daemon would violate design assumptions. So this
> > will require a new 'postfix' subcommand that starts exactly one
> > instance in the foreground.
>
> There are a lot of daemons out there that follow an interesting rule:
> If you want to stay in the foreground, there is a switch in the launch
> command to stay in the foreground. So that might be an option instead
> of having yet another command in the config files. (Or perhaps in
> addition to.)
>
> Don't you have such a thing you use to debug Postfix, Mr. Venema?
This may come as a surprise: Postfix is not just one daemon, it is
actually a collection of daemons, so the question may seem simple,
but the answer is not.
Wietse
