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Re: Correct way to do whitlising / bypassing of filtering.

From: Craig Sanders (castaz.net.au)
Date: Mon Nov 01 2004 - 15:19:34 CST

On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 08:10:47AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > I'm with Magnus on this one, reload is generally enough.
>
> since when?
>
> for as long as i've been using postfix, i've needed to restart postfix
> when master.cf has changed

ah.

the man page for master says:

SIGHUP Upon receipt of a HUP signal (e.g., after postfix reload), the
       master process re-reads its configuration files. If a service
       has been removed from the master.cf file, its running processes
       are terminated immediately. Otherwise, running processes are
       allowed to terminate as soon as is convenient, so that changes in
       configuration settings affect only new service requests.

i must have missed that change.

i still think it's a good idea to restart after changing master.cf because of
that "so that changes in configuration settings affect only new service
requests." i want master.cf changes to take effect immediately for all
requests, not when it is convenient.

craig

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craig sanders <castaz.net.au> (part time cyborg)