Wietse Venema put forth on 2/7/2011 1:05 PM: > getpwnam() is not a good example because Postfix uses proxymap from > inside the jail, but you get the idea.
Here's a good example Wietse, one you helped me figure out/fix a couple of years ago. Before Lenny (Released Feb 2009), Debian didn't create a syslog socket for the Postfix jail. Thus, manually restarting the syslog daemon caused odd Postfix logging behavior. We were actually troubleshooting something unrelated when we noticed the log problem. I had made changes to my syslog config and restarted the daemon some months prior and had forgotten about it. Due to my zero experience with chroot, it took Wietse a couple of emails to explain what was happening, for which I was grateful. So I understand, from first hand experience, what kind of unnecessary problems the Debian Postfix chroot jail can cause, and the time it can waste. -- Stan
