lst_ho...@kwsoft.de:
> The "problem" is more of that distribution like Ubuntu and Redhat are
> moving to "upstart" for boot and starting services/daemons. The main
> difference for the started services is that upstart need the program
> to *not* daemonize or terminate itself because status is checked
> directly to do respawn and other things if necessary and not by
> monitoring a PID like it was with sys-v. So basically to get Postfix
> upstart compatibel a "postfix-start-stop" helper would be needed which
> is always running and only does dispatching of start/stop requests to
> the master(s) according to Postfix needs.
The problem with this approach is that Postfix is not one program,
like named, apache, etc., and that simply starting one master daemon
is insufficient as it skips all the start-up repair and sanity checks.
Wietse
