Re: supervising postfix

[Vincent Danen <vdanen@annvix.org>]

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On 16-Oct-04, at 5:37 PM, Vincent Danen wrote:

>>> Patching postfix is not my idea of a good time, either.  I'd prefer 
>>> to
>>> not mangle as much software as possible because it becomes a
>>> maintenance nuisance.
>>
>> Sure, but you already have a maintenance problem, right now. Postfix
>> doesn't run for you.
>
> Well, it does.  Not the way that I exactly want, but I can start 
> postfix from stage 1 and have it work.  Of course, if I do it this way 
> I have to "exec chpst -P postfix start &" which isn't elegant.
>
> I'm recompiling postfix now with the change to master.c you noted in 
> your next email and we'll see if I can make master run under 
> supervision and do the right thing.

Ok, just patched master.c and it works properly supervised now.  For 
the archives, and anyone else looking to run postfix 2.1.5 supervised:

[vdanen@dionysus SPECS]$ bzcat 
../SOURCES/postfix-2.1.5-avx-warnsetsid.patch.bz2
--- postfix-2.1.5/src/master/master.c.avx       2004-10-16 
15:47:25.000000000 -0600
+++ postfix-2.1.5/src/master/master.c   2004-10-16 15:49:27.000000000 
-0600
@@ -286,9 +286,10 @@
       * Run in a separate process group, so that "postfix stop" can 
terminate
       * all MTA processes cleanly. Give up if we can't separate from our
       * parent process. We're not supposed to blow away the parent.
+     * Annvix: to run master supervised, we change this from being 
fatal to being a warning
       */
-    if (setsid() == -1)
-       msg_fatal("unable to set session and process group ID: %m");
+    if (setsid() < 0)
+       msg_warn("setsid failed: %m");

      /*
       * Make some room for plumbing with file descriptors. XXX This 
breaks


Thanks, Charlie!  That seemed to work quite well.

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