Zsombor B:
> Hi All,
>
>
> We had a mail service outage caused by a storage issue (the volume
> with the custom config files went down) and postfix kept looking
> for config files which were unavailable. We also see in the logs
> that postfix keeps checking for modified config files and if it
> finds an updated config then automatically reloads itself.
>
> Is it possible to disable this automatic config file check and the
> automatic reload?
You ask the wrong question.
Postfix does not keep checking the file system for modified files
to reload. If you see "reload" logging from the master daemon, then
perhaps you are running some tool to do that for you.
Most Postfix daemons will terminate after 100 connections or 100
seconds of inactivity.
When a new process is started, that process reads Postfix config
files as it starts up.
You can't tell a Postfix process to read configuration files as it
starts up. You can configure Postfix to run its daemons forever,
but that is not recommended.
Wietse
