On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 02:19:22PM +0100, Peter Lamberg wrote: > 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).
yes there is some pb with postfix in chroot jail and /var/spool/postfix/etc/resolv.conf not updated automatically. You can modify your script to copy your new /etc/resolv.cof to /var/spool/postfix/etc or disable the chroot jail. But that really strange you loosed mails. > 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? no. that should be done when updating /etc/resolv.conf i had a patch to do it, but it is a bit nasty and i prefer the debian way to do it but that requires some changement to initscripts (especially no more sync with rh). > 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. thx. BTW, how many are interressed of postfix 2.0.1 rpms ? -- Yves Duret [EMAIL PROTECTED] piouk toujours et meme apres !
