Am Samstag, 11. Januar 2003 18:12 schrieb Michael Scherer: > > Just lost dozens of sent mails with postfix during at least 2 months. > > I use my laptop with postfix in several networks. I have simple > > scripts to update eg. /etc/resolv.conf. > > > > However /var/spool/postfix/etc/ wasn't getting updated (since I wasn't > > aware of it). > > > > Sent mails (and also messages about mail delivery problems) were > > getting lost when laptop wasn't in the environment it was in when > > postfix was first configured with mdk 9.0 upgrade. > > > > Is there some mechanism that updates /var/spool/postfix/etc/ ? > > > > Why doesn't /etc/rc.d/init.d/postfix (seem to) run it? > > > > Should there be some mechanism in cron tables to update the jail? > > > > This could just be a problem I have caused by my own careless > > tinkerings, but since the effects caused me (and my wife) some trouble > > I thought it's nice to mention it. > > I had almost the same problem. > > Come back from a 4 month travel, and postfix was not at the good time, > since /var/spool/postfix/etc/localtime was not updated. > > I had think of a few solutions, such as using mount --bind, or using ln > to create a hardlink. But, since I can not really try in real life > condition and having not much time to do so, I don't know if it work > fine. > > Mick
Hey, simply disable the chroot jail. If you ar not permanently connected to the internet and your postfix does not listen to public reachable ports it does not relaly mater. And postfix is known to be realy stable and secure. Martin -- ------------------------------------------------------------ H E L I X Gesellschaft f�r Software & Engineering mbH ------------------------------------------------------------ Hanauer Landstrasse 52 Telefon (069) 4789 35-30 60314 Frankfurt am Main Telefax (069) 4789 35-44 ------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.helix-gmbh.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------
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