On 2020-07-17 PGNet Dev wrote: > i'm deploying a postfix server, using distr-pkg'd postfix > > to date, i've always/only used postfix that i've built/installed to my > liking. > > i prefer to keep my configs under /usr/local/etc/postfix. > > my postfix is config'd/built with config dir == > /usr/local/etc/postfix. so its bins (postconf, postfix, postsuper, > etc etc) are are, by default, pointed to that config path. > > distro pkgs are built with, typically, default config location == > /etc/postfix. similarly, its bins are pointed to THAT config path. > > 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 > > (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. > > Is either (1) or (2) preferred for any reason? Or is there a better > way to accomplish this?
Yes. Stop working against your distro. Either compile Postfix yourself or use the structures the distro implements. If for some reason you must use the pre-packaged Potfix but still have /usr/local/etc/postfix just create it as a symlink to /etc/postfix, not the other way 'round. Regards Ansgar Wiechers -- "All vulnerabilities deserve a public fear period prior to patches becoming available." --Jason Coombs on Bugtraq
