Wietse Venema:
> Wietse Venema:
> > Priyanka Tyagi:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I am running three Postfix instances (Postfix version - 2.6.2) on a single
> > > host. I have separate postfix configuration files (main.cf and master.cf)
> > > specific to each instance. I have most of the configurations common in all
> > > of the instances. I want to put all common configurations in one file, and
> > > each instance should include configuration details from common file +
> > > specific configuration to that particular instance like data_directory
> > > etc.
> > > Does Postfix -2.6.2 support such resue of common configurations?
> > >
> > > Please let me know if you need any other details.
> >
> > Here is a complete example of how to maintain multiple main.cf files
> > that share common content.
>
> One missing line added below (first line in the makefile).
OK, third and final attempt.
Wietse
Contents of /etc/postfix-shared/makefile:
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POSTFIX1 = /etc/postfix1
POSTFIX2 = /etc/postfix2
COMMON = /etc/postfix-common
all: $(POSTFIX1)/main.cf $(POSTFIX2)/main.cf
$(POSTFIX1)/main.cf: $(COMMON)/main.cf $(POSTFIX1)/main.cf-private
cat $(COMMON)/main.cf $(POSTFIX1)/main.cf-private > $(POSTFIX1)/main.cf
postfix -c $(POSTFIX1) reload
$(POSTFIX2)/main.cf: $(COMMON)/main.cf $(POSTFIX2)/main.cf-private
cat $(COMMON)/main.cf $(POSTFIX2)/main.cf-private > $(POSTFIX2)/main.cf
postfix -c $(POSTFIX2) reload
Commands to update multiple Postfix main.cf files:
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$ cd /etc/postfix-common
$ vi main.cf
$ make
More details in the make(1) manpage. It is available since 1976 or so.
Wietse
