On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 10:42:54AM -0500, btb wrote:
> I guess I consider lost logs to be a bug - I'll submit a bug report to
> ubuntu for this. In your opinion, would this be something the postfix
> package maintainer should address, or the syslog-ng packager maintainer [or
> is it just the admin's fault]?
If a distribution ships Postfix packages with chroot enabled by
default, it must also arrange for syslogd or equivalent to keep a
log socket in each Postfix chroot jail (I say "each", because with
multiple instances each queue directory is a separate jail). They'd
have to patch "postmulti-script" to make the appropriate syslog
configuration changes.
At some point the Debian and Ubuntu distributions might finally
reconsider their chroot-by-default decision, it hurts a lot more
than it helps.
[ Scott K.? LaMont J.? Any plans? ]
--
Viktor.
P.S.
Things were much simpler when syslog(3) was UDP to localhost. No
log sockets in the file-system. The UDP namespace is unified across
chroot jails.
