currently pmxcfs and the running mta (postfix in most cases I assume) have no ordering between them - resulting in the mta starting before pmxcfs.
This can be problematic in case of a mail for 'root' being in the mailq: postfix tries to deliver the mail - pvemailforward tries to look up the destination address in /etc/pve/user.cfg and gets a connection refused since pmxcfs is not running yet. reported via our community-forum: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/.108893/ Signed-off-by: Stoiko Ivanov <s.iva...@proxmox.com> --- sending as RFC, since while thinking about this issue and discussing it off-list (thx @Fiona!) the following alternative approaches were/are considered: * letting pvemailforward.pl exit with an error-code - sadly does not work as the only difference is that postfix generates a bounce for the mail and in (the most-common) case of root being the sender that bounce is also undeliverable, and thus dropped * the fix through systemd-ordering does work for this case - but seems not quite fitting (after all pmxcfs and postfix can happily exist w/o the other - only delivering mail to root does not work) - also the issue also happens if pmxcfs is not available for other reasons * an alternative approach would be to retry fetching the information from pmxcfs a few times (afair postfix' command-timeout is 1000s for this), e.g. like we do in the installer when looking for the correct ISO. debian/pve-cluster.service | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/debian/pve-cluster.service b/debian/pve-cluster.service index 4327055..fb706be 100644 --- a/debian/pve-cluster.service +++ b/debian/pve-cluster.service @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ Wants=corosync.service Wants=rrdcached.service Before=corosync.service Before=cron.service +Before=postfix.service exim4.service sendmail.service qmail.service After=network.target After=sys-fs-fuse-connections.mount After=time-sync.target -- 2.30.2 _______________________________________________ pve-devel mailing list pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com https://lists.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-devel
