Stephen Satchell: > On 12/19/2017 05:25 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: > > As for forgrounding, this must happen only after the 'postfix > > check' sanity checks and repairs complete sucessfully. Running a > > 'bare' master daemon would violate design assumptions. So this > > will require a new 'postfix' subcommand that starts exactly one > > instance in the foreground. > > There are a lot of daemons out there that follow an interesting rule: > If you want to stay in the foreground, there is a switch in the launch > command to stay in the foreground. So that might be an option instead > of having yet another command in the config files. (Or perhaps in > addition to.) > > Don't you have such a thing you use to debug Postfix, Mr. Venema?
This may come as a surprise: Postfix is not just one daemon, it is actually a collection of daemons, so the question may seem simple, but the answer is not. Wietse