Hello, I am trying to understand the postfix startup sequence.
I am using postfix 3.4.5 on Debian. /etc/init.d/postfix, the init script that is used to start postfix does not start master directly, but calls: /usr/sbin/postfix quiet-quick-start which in turn calls postfix-script. And than, postfix-script, after some checks and housekeeping (post-install), starts master: /usr/lib/postfix/sbin/master & At first sight, this looks very complicated. Especially mysterious is, why post-install needs to be run at each start to "create missing queue directories", and check if permissions correspond to those defined in /etc/postfix/postfix-files Why should queue directories be missing ? Other than somebody deliberately deleting them, are there situations where this might happen? If I am using simplest possible setup (single instance, no chroot), and I don't delete queue directories, can I simply skip postfix-script and post-install and start master directly from /etc/init.d/postfix, ie ? /usr/lib/postfix/sbin/master & What exactly will I miss ? I tried comparing running instances (one started in the standard way, the other by calling "master &" directly). postconf prints identical info in both cases. thanks,
