Hi Wietse,
Thanks for the explanation, now it's clear. Zsombor On 2021.08.25 03:54, Wietse Venema wrote: > 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
