Re: [OT] Re: found a "bug" on postfix 2.9.1

2012-03-07 Thread Wietse Venema
Eliezer Croitoru: > On 07/03/2012 02:33, Wietse Venema wrote: > > Eliezer Croitoru: > >> i dont care about any init scripts on whatever else then when there is > >> this specific problem of mismatching binding an ip that dosnt exist to > >> be checked using the "postfix check" method on terminal an

Re: [OT] Re: found a "bug" on postfix 2.9.1

2012-03-06 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 04:01:47PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: > So you need a way for "postfix start" that returns status 0 if the > master(8) daemon initalizes successfully, and non-zero otherwise. > > I think this can be done by starting the master as a foreground > process. The foreground ma

Re: [OT] Re: found a "bug" on postfix 2.9.1

2012-03-06 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
On 07/03/2012 02:33, Wietse Venema wrote: Eliezer Croitoru: i dont care about any init scripts on whatever else then when there is this specific problem of mismatching binding an ip that dosnt exist to be checked using the "postfix check" method on terminal and not only on log. Sorry, only the

Re: [OT] Re: found a "bug" on postfix 2.9.1

2012-03-06 Thread Wietse Venema
Eliezer Croitoru: > i dont care about any init scripts on whatever else then when there is > this specific problem of mismatching binding an ip that dosnt exist to > be checked using the "postfix check" method on terminal and not only on log. Sorry, only the master daemon knows that it can't acc

Re: [OT] Re: found a "bug" on postfix 2.9.1

2012-03-06 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
On 06/03/2012 21:30, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 03/06/12 14:10, Wietse Venema wrote: Eray Aslan: On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 11:48:35AM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: I think that making everyone wait would be another example of well-meaning people doing things that give Postfix a bad reputation. p

Re: [OT] Re: found a "bug" on postfix 2.9.1

2012-03-06 Thread Eray Aslan
On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 04:01:47PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: > So you need a way for "postfix start" that returns status 0 if the > master(8) daemon initalizes successfully, and non-zero otherwise. Correct. > I think this can be done by starting the master as a foreground > process. The foregr

Re: [OT] Re: found a "bug" on postfix 2.9.1

2012-03-06 Thread Wietse Venema
Eray Aslan: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 02:30:59PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > either. Right now the problem is easy to understand: half of the time on > > Gentoo, the startup "OK" is meaningless. Everyone knows this, and > > figures out how to deal with it quickly: > > > > backup2 ~ # /etc

Re: [OT] Re: found a "bug" on postfix 2.9.1

2012-03-06 Thread Eray Aslan
On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 02:30:59PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > either. Right now the problem is easy to understand: half of the time on > Gentoo, the startup "OK" is meaningless. Everyone knows this, and > figures out how to deal with it quickly: > > backup2 ~ # /etc/init.d/postfix stop >

Re: [OT] Re: found a "bug" on postfix 2.9.1

2012-03-06 Thread Wietse Venema
Michael Orlitzky: > backup2 ~ # killall -9 /usr/lib64/postfix/master > backup2 ~ # /etc/init.d/postfix start >* WARNING: postfix has already been started That is a bug in an init script, and is the responsibility of the OS-specific maintainer. Postfix does not provide init/upstart/systemd/

[OT] Re: found a "bug" on postfix 2.9.1

2012-03-06 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 03/06/12 14:10, Wietse Venema wrote: > Eray Aslan: >> On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 11:48:35AM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: >>> I think that making everyone wait would be another example of >>> well-meaning people doing things that give Postfix a bad reputation. >> >> postfix start exits successfully b