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 and not only on

found a bug on postfix 2.9.1

2012-03-06 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
OS:Gentoo latest built with kernel 3.2.1 with hardened profile POSTFIX: v 2.9.1 when i'm configuring on master.cf some listening to port on ip address that doesn't exist on any interface such as for communicating with amavis (as if my ip is 192.168.0.20 and i will put 192.168.0.21:25 ) postfix

Re: found a bug on postfix 2.9.1

2012-03-06 Thread Wietse Venema
Eliezer Croitoru: OS:Gentoo latest built with kernel 3.2.1 with hardened profile POSTFIX: v 2.9.1 when i'm configuring on master.cf some listening to port on ip address that doesn't exist on any interface such as for communicating with amavis (as if my ip is 192.168.0.20 and i will put

Re: found a bug on postfix 2.9.1

2012-03-06 Thread Wietse Venema
Wietse Venema: Eliezer Croitoru: OS:Gentoo latest built with kernel 3.2.1 with hardened profile POSTFIX: v 2.9.1 when i'm configuring on master.cf some listening to port on ip address that doesn't exist on any interface such as for communicating with amavis (as if my ip is

Re: found a bug on postfix 2.9.1

2012-03-06 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 12:37:02 +0200 Eliezer Croitoru articulated: OS:Gentoo latest built with kernel 3.2.1 with hardened profile POSTFIX: v 2.9.1 when i'm configuring on master.cf some listening to port on ip address that doesn't exist on any interface such as for communicating with amavis

Re: found a bug on postfix 2.9.1

2012-03-06 Thread Eray Aslan
On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 07:03:04AM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: /etc/postfix/master.cf: 1.2.3.4:25 inet n - n - 1 whatever # postfix stop # postfix start # tail -3 /var/log/maillog Mar 6 06:53:25 tail postfix/master[60082]: terminating on signal 15

Re: found a bug on postfix 2.9.1

2012-03-06 Thread Wietse Venema
Eray Aslan: # postfix start postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system # echo $? 0 As documented in the Postfix manpage: start Start the Postfix mail system. This also runs the configuration check described above. status Indicate if the Postfix mail system is

Re: found a bug on postfix 2.9.1

2012-03-06 Thread Eray Aslan
On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 08:40:16AM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: start Start the Postfix mail system. This also runs the configuration check described above. status Indicate if the Postfix mail system is currently running. This does introduce a non-negligible delay in startup

Re: found a bug on postfix 2.9.1

2012-03-06 Thread Wietse Venema
Eray Aslan: On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 08:40:16AM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: start Start the Postfix mail system. This also runs the configuration check described above. status Indicate if the Postfix mail system is currently running. This does introduce a non-negligible

Re: [SPAM] Re: found a bug on postfix 2.9.1

2012-03-06 Thread Stéphane MERLE
Le 06/03/2012 17:48, Wietse Venema a écrit : Eray Aslan: On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 08:40:16AM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: start Start the Postfix mail system. This also runs the configuration check described above. status Indicate if the Postfix mail system is currently

Re: found a bug on postfix 2.9.1

2012-03-06 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 3/6/2012 10:48 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: - Turning on chroot by default. Many Debian etc. users get into trouble when they make an innocuous configuration change to the SMTP daemon. Postfix has no defense for this brain damage. Is this the syslog socket issue Wietse or another issue?

Re: found a bug on postfix 2.9.1

2012-03-06 Thread Wietse Venema
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 but postfix doesn't work, resulting in a WTF

[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 but postfix

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

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
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 ~ #

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 foreground

Re: found a bug on postfix 2.9.1

2012-03-06 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
On 06/03/2012 21:10, 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 but postfix

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.

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 access

Re: found a bug on postfix 2.9.1

2012-03-06 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
On 06/03/2012 14:17, Jerry wrote: On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 12:37:02 +0200 Eliezer Croitoru articulated: OS:Gentoo latest built with kernel 3.2.1 with hardened profile POSTFIX: v 2.9.1 when i'm configuring on master.cf some listening to port on ip address that doesn't exist on any interface such as

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 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 master