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Subject: Re: To chroot or not to chroot, sgid or not to sgid?
From: Andreas Siegert (afxsuse.de)
Date: Tue Feb 01 2000 - 10:01:20 CST

Quoting Matthias Andree (madt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de) on Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 02:27:48PM +0100:
> jseymourjimsun.LinxNet.com (Jim Seymour) writes:
>
> > The question I have, specifically wrt chroot-ing, is this: can
> > somebody, or many somebodies, appraise me of what increased, on-going
> > administrative issues may be involved? The point that occurs to me is
> > that as certain files are changed over time, it will be necessary to
> > manually (?) keep the chroot-ed copies in sync with their "real"
> > counterparts.
>
> Postfix scripts account for that and warn if the "real world" files are
> out of sync with the chrooted ones.

Nope! It does not!
It took me a while to realize that the reason my fetchmail in the office was
so slow was the fact that postfix tried to use my home DNS server instead of
the office one....

cheers
afx 

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