On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Ken Stephens wrote: > The file was cached until load became enough to push it out. That's when > the system reread the configuration and started your troubles. The Tribles > did it.
Ken, That certainly makes sense. As the system is on continuously there's no reason to re-read any config files. Was quite a shock early in the morning to see no new mail, not even from the backup or log summaries. Pondering the situation, past upgrades must have left main.cf unchanged because this has not happened before. My working main.cf was renamed to main.cf.orig and the new file took its place. Now I know what to do if this happens with the next upgrade. What made it really easy to fix was reading man diff and learning of the -y option. Opened a v.t. and maximized that, then ran diff -y on the old main.cf (recovered from the backup until I realized it was there as main.cf.orig) and the new file and saw the changes side-by-side. Makes comparison _so_ easy! Thanks so much for pointing out why postfix broke after 4 days, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
