Re: postfix, anyone

[rory]

> On 7 Aug 2002, Rory Toma wrote:
>
> Morning!
>
>> Before I go and figure out how to do this...
>>
>> I'm now running monit on my personal server (monit's not just for work
>> anymore!) and one of the things I run is postfix instead of sendmail.
>> Does anyone have a working monitrc statement for postfix? I believe it
>> runs at least master and qmgr regularly. However these are all started
>> from a postfix binary that starts other binaries and then exits, so
>> the hacking pid file into init script doesn't work. I suppose one
>> could modify qmgr and master to write pid files, but it would be nice
>> to work without that.
>
> My Solaris7 server runs postfix.  And I have a /var/spool/postfix/pid/
> master.pid out of the box.  Monit runs with that very well.  I dont't
> now how to handle the qmgr.
>
> Christian


I suppose setting the start program to "restart" would make sure that qmgr
got restarted whether it needed it or not. Or, perhaps running postfix
start also does this. I'll have to see.
Thx