Demi Marie Obenour:
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> On 1/6/23 07:15, Wietse Venema wrote:
> > Peter Wienemann:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> is there a way to dump the effective postfix configuration rather than
> >> the one specified in main.cf/master.cf? It seems that changes to
> >> main.cf/master.cf have an immediate impact on the output of postconf
> >> regardless of whether a reload/restart of the service was performed.
> >
> > How would that work? Different Postfix processes start at different
> > times, and some processes (qmgr, master) run forever.
>
> What about using inotify/kqueue to determine when a config file has
> changed and reload accordingly?
It is not necessarily desirable that a daemon refreshes as soon as
one file has changed, especially when multiple files need to be
updated. I think that it is not burdensome to "postfix reload".
kqueue and inotify were introduced to BSD and Linux years after
Postfix was already released. They have no equivalent on other
systems, and MacOS kqueue has a problematic history with Postfix.
Wietse
