From: Justin Pasher (justinpdistribion.com)
Date: Tue Aug 31 2010 - 13:02:28 CDT

• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

Noel Jones wrote:
> The only bone I have to throw will reduce the number of places to
> change it.
>
> # main.cf
> my_syslog_name = instanceX
> syslog_name = $my_syslog_name
>
> # master.cf
> foo .... foo
> -o syslog_name=$my_syslog_name

Well, it sounded like a good idea when I read it, but it looks like in
practice it doesn't work out. I set up some of the more common services
as follows:

--------------------
# main.cf
my_instance_name = postfix-queue1
syslog_name = $my_instance_name

# master.cf
smtp inet n - n - - smtpd
    -o syslog_name=$my_instance_name
cleanup unix n - n - 0 cleanup
    -o syslog_name=$my_instance_name
bounce unix - - n - 0 bounce
    -o syslog_name=$my_instance_name
smtp unix - - n - - smtp
    -o syslog_name=$my_instance_name
--------------------

Turns out, the macro doesn't get expanded in the process name.

4894 ? S 0:00 smtpd -n smtp -t inet -u -o syslog_name
$my_instance_name
7755 ? S 0:00 cleanup -z -t unix -u -o syslog_name
$my_instance_name
7758 ? S 0:00 smtp -t unix -u -o syslog_name $my_instance_name
8468 ? S 0:00 smtpd -n smtp -t inet -u -o syslog_name
$my_instance_name
8491 ? S 0:00 smtp -t unix -u -o syslog_name $my_instance_name

Hmph. Unless there's a specific option within Postfix to do this, I'm
guessing I'll just have to resort to hard-coding the name in master.cf.
Thanks for the help.

--
Justin Pasher

• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]