[rescue] Starting Postfix (was: Building Sendmail 8.13.1)Z

Phil Stracchino alaric at caerllewys.net
Mon Sep 20 22:54:27 CDT 2004


On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 08:40:47PM -0700, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
>  Phil Stracchino writes ...
> > 
> > For reference, this is how I start Postfix:
> > 
> > # Start mail system if mail queue dir is mounted
> > 
> > if [ -d /var/spool/postfix ]; then
> >     echo "Cleaning up mail queue directory before starting Postfix..."
> >     /usr/sbin/postsuper -s
> >     /usr/sbin/postfix start
> > fi
> 
> Looks reasonable.  Thanks for the nudge on postsuper, too.
> 
> I'm inclined to do the full-whoop, though, with chkconfig,
> start/stop/restart-reload, rebuiding the various databases, etc.  Basically
> a postfixification of the current file.

Oh, sure.  I'm just sayin'.   :)


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