On 8/11/2011 10:50 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: > Ralf Hildebrandt: >> * Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com>: >> >>> Lamont replied once, in Feb 2008, over 6 months after the bug report and >>> patch were submitted, simply saying he wanted to "wait for upstream". >>> That is the first and last entry in the bug report from the maintainer. >>> >>> Thus, I would assume, as long as he's the maintainer, multi instance >>> support will never be added to the Debian init script. >> >> I can confirm that the init script doesn't handle multiple instances >> properly. > > Trivial fix: modify the init script to invoke "postfix start" etc. > instead of directly invoking the master daemon.
I don't believe the current init script directly invokes the master daemon, but I'm not much of a shell programmer, so someone else would need to confirm. "/usr/lib/postfix/master" does not appear in the script file anywhere. And, this init script we're discussing "/etc/init.d/postfix", is what provides start|stop|reload etc functionality in Debian. So, changing as you recommend would simply have it re-invoke itself. At least that's my amateur read of it. Note that I've never looked at the Postfix source files, so I have no idea of the differences between the "Debian way" and what Wietse distributes. -- Stan
