On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 07:31:11PM -0700, PGNet Dev wrote:
> I simply want to ensure that the distro-pkg's bins get pointed to my
> configs in /usr/local/etc/postfix.
>
> two simple ways to do that are
>
> (1) ln -sf /usr/local/etc/postfix /etc/postfix
This would be the preferred approach. But (don't recall the details)
that might elicit complaints from postfix-check, because the global
config_directory is not a directory.
> (2) shell alias each bin with "... -c /usr/local/etc/postfix", or
> shell-script-wrap in /usr/local/bin each postfix-bin, doing the same.
The drawback here is that it is liable to break multi-instance support.
The "postmulti -x" command runs variaus postfix commands with the
"MAIL_CONFIG" environment variable set to point to the right instance,
but your "-c options" would incorrectly always force the default
instance.
> Is either (1) or (2) preferred for any reason?
> Or is there a better way to accomplish this?
The best way may well be a loopback mount, if a symlink (1) creates
non-trivial friction.
--
Viktor.
