Re: postconf -n suggestion

2009-03-07 Thread Simon J Mudd
a.j.cai...@halplant.com ("Andrew J. Caines") writes: > Wietse Venema wrote: > > Making trouble reports easier requires a saslfinger-like tool that > > captures info about Postfix, the OS, build options, etc. > > While not updated in a few years, postfinger[1] does a fair job of this. > > > [1]

Re: postconf -n suggestion

2009-03-07 Thread Andrew J. Caines
Wietse Venema wrote: > Making trouble reports easier requires a saslfinger-like tool that > captures info about Postfix, the OS, build options, etc. While not updated in a few years, postfinger[1] does a fair job of this. [1] ftp://ftp.wl0.org/ftp.wl0.org/postfinger/ -- -Andrew J. Caines- Un

Re: postconf -n suggestion

2009-03-04 Thread Wietse Venema
Pawe?? Le??niak: > W dniu 2009-03-04 20:53, Charles Marcus pisze: > > Irrelevant. There is nothing wrong with simplifying things... > > > Simplifying does not mean changing behavior. As Wietse said, postconf -n > shows only setting from main.cf. So adding values from outside main.cf > is not

Re: postconf -n suggestion

2009-03-04 Thread Paweł Leśniak
W dniu 2009-03-04 20:53, Charles Marcus pisze: Irrelevant. There is nothing wrong with simplifying things... Simplifying does not mean changing behavior. As Wietse said, postconf -n shows only setting from main.cf. So adding values from outside main.cf is not simplifying at all. By your ar

Re: postconf -n suggestion

2009-03-04 Thread Charles Marcus
On 3/4/2009 2:36 PM, Paweł Leśniak wrote: >> I was just talking about something that would make it easier when >> someone was asking for help on the list... I don't think the above will >> quite accomplish that... > In many cases (I'm not gonna do statistics) new users do not post their > question

Re: postconf -n suggestion

2009-03-04 Thread Paweł Leśniak
I was just talking about something that would make it easier when someone was asking for help on the list... I don't think the above will quite accomplish that... In many cases (I'm not gonna do statistics) new users do not post their questions correctly - often we can see 2nd message in th

Re: postconf -n suggestion

2009-03-04 Thread LuKreme
On 4-Mar-2009, at 11:54, Wietse Venema wrote: "postconf -n" does not list parameters unless they are set in main.cf. The simplicity of the tool makes it useful for building into other tools. If we start making random exceptions then we get on a slippery slope (why stop with mail_version? why not

Re: postconf -n suggestion

2009-03-04 Thread Wietse Venema
LuKreme: > On 4-Mar-2009, at 09:22, Wietse Venema wrote: > > Charles Marcus: > >> Dovecot has added two lines of text to the beginning output of > >> dovecot > >> -n that could possibly save some time with troubleshooting... > >> > >> It adds the version on the first line, and OS/platform info on

Re: postconf -n suggestion

2009-03-04 Thread Wietse Venema
Noel Jones: > Wietse Venema wrote: > > Charles Marcus: > >> Dovecot has added two lines of text to the beginning output of dovecot > >> -n that could possibly save some time with troubleshooting... > >> > >> It adds the version on the first line, and OS/platform info on the > >> second line, like s

Re: postconf -n suggestion

2009-03-04 Thread postfix
At 12:52 PM 3/4/2009, Charles Marcus wrote: >> # 1.1.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf >> # OS: Linux 2.6.23-gentoo-r9 x86_64 Gentoo Base System release 1.12.11.1 If the output is name =value then could the output just be conf = 1.1.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf OS = Linux 2.6.23-gentoo-r9 x86_64 G

Re: postconf -n suggestion

2009-03-04 Thread Noel Jones
Wietse Venema wrote: Charles Marcus: Dovecot has added two lines of text to the beginning output of dovecot -n that could possibly save some time with troubleshooting... It adds the version on the first line, and OS/platform info on the second line, like so: # 1.1.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

Re: postconf -n suggestion

2009-03-04 Thread LuKreme
On 4-Mar-2009, at 09:22, Wietse Venema wrote: Charles Marcus: Dovecot has added two lines of text to the beginning output of dovecot -n that could possibly save some time with troubleshooting... It adds the version on the first line, and OS/platform info on the second line, like so: # 1.1.11

Re: postconf -n suggestion

2009-03-04 Thread Charles Marcus
On 3/4/2009 12:26 PM, Victor Duchovni wrote: >> Dovecot has added two lines of text to the beginning output of dovecot >> -n that could possibly save some time with troubleshooting... >> >> It adds the version on the first line, and OS/platform info on the >> second line, like so: >> >> # 1.1.11: /

Re: postconf -n suggestion

2009-03-04 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 11:10:13AM -0500, Charles Marcus wrote: > Dovecot has added two lines of text to the beginning output of dovecot > -n that could possibly save some time with troubleshooting... > > It adds the version on the first line, and OS/platform info on the > second line, like so: >

Re: postconf -n suggestion

2009-03-04 Thread Charles Marcus
On 3/4/2009 11:22 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: >> Dovecot has added two lines of text to the beginning output of dovecot >> -n that could possibly save some time with troubleshooting... >> >> It adds the version on the first line, and OS/platform info on the >> second line, like so: >> >> # 1.1.11: /et

Re: postconf -n suggestion

2009-03-04 Thread Wietse Venema
Charles Marcus: > Dovecot has added two lines of text to the beginning output of dovecot > -n that could possibly save some time with troubleshooting... > > It adds the version on the first line, and OS/platform info on the > second line, like so: > > # 1.1.11: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf > # OS: L