Postfix question

[Bob McClure Jr]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 12:12:08PM -0500, Bob McClure Jr wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 09:30:01AM -0700, Waldher, Travis R wrote:
> > Under a directory
> > 
> > /var/spool/postfix/etc  
> > 
> > There are files such as hosts, resolv.conf, etc.  Which are supposed to
> > be copies of the /etc files.
> > 
> > Why aren't these files just links to /etc so it would always test ok,
> > and if those files changed, postfix would change automatically (minus
> > having to run reload).
> 
> They might possibly be hard links, but only if /etc and
> /var/spool/postfix/etc are on the same filesystem.  A symlink won't
> work in the chroot environment.  But some editors or change processes
> will break hard links, so that may not even work.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Bob McClure, Jr.

I should have added that, in a busy environment, say, an ISP, I set up
a cron job that refreshes those files every five minutes using rsync.

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
robertmcclure at earthlink.net  http://www.bobcatos.com
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