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Re: why every minute: "reload configuration /etc/postfix"

From: Arne Hoffmann (arnefish.in-berlin.de)
Date: Thu May 08 2008 - 07:22:58 CDT

Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:

> > > Kill the cron job that executes "postfix reload" every minute.
> >
> > Is there a cron job??? That was my first suspect, too.
> > But I can't find one!

Doesn't have to be cron, could be something like cfengine or similar.

> No. Hint: Simply rename "postfix" to "postfix.foo" and see which
> program starts to throw errors.

The command that does this doesn't have to be "postfix reload". Maybe it's
"pkill -HUP master" or "kill -HUP $(</var/spool/postfix/pid/master.pid)".

Andy, please try this:

find /etc -type f -exec grep -H kill.*master {} \;

Also search in /root and /usr/local/bin.