Ok, this is driving me nuts, and I'm hoping maybe someone else has 
dealt with and solved this.  In Annvix, we ship both exim and postfix 
(exim being preferred... it runs awesome supervised).  The same can't 
be said of postfix, however.

I spent all day upgrading my rpm packages from 2.0.13 to 2.1.5 to find 
that somewhere, somehow, it's operating a little differently, and I'm 
not at all sure why.  I've found some info regarding postfix under 
daemontools, but it looks like it's all for version 2.0.x or earlier.

This is the run script I'm using:

!/bin/sh
# this was originally posted at 
http://mandree.home.pages.de/postfix/daemontools.html
# but doesn't seem to be there anymore... thanks google!

set -e

PATH="/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin"

# this runs postfix supervised

command_directory=`postconf -h command_directory`
daemon_directory=`$command_directory/postconf -h daemon_directory`

# kill postfix if running to ensure we run supervised
$daemon_directory/master -t || $command_directory/postfix stop

# make consistency check
#$command_directory/postfix check >/dev/console 2>&1

$daemon_directory/master 2>&1


I can't use exec for master because if I do I get this written to my 
mail.log:

Oct  9 14:31:46 test postfix/master[1941]: fatal: unable to set session 
and process group ID: Operation not permitted

However, for some odd reason if I manually run the run script (ie. sh 
-x ./run) the master process starts and starts the children properly, 
etc.  If I try to make /service/postfix available to runsv by itself, 
runsv never seems to pick up.  But if I do "runsv /service/postfix" 
then it will run (but that's not how it should be).  If I do "runsvctrl 
u postfix" I get:

[root@test postfix]# runsvctrl u /service/postfix
runsvctrl: warning: /service/postfix: supervise not running.

I'm really stumped on this one... I've never seen runsv not respond to 
a service like this.  Personally, I wouldn't mind ditching postfix 
entirely but I think I'd have some users upset with me, and I'd really 
like to not have wasted an entire day on this (and I don't want to run 
postfix by itself outside of runsv... that defeats much of the purpose 
of the system).

Anyone have any ideas they could toss to me?  I'm about ready for any 
bones here and willing to try anything.  If I had hair I'd be ripping 
it out.

If there's more info I can provide, please ask... I think I've included 
all the pertinent info, but I may have missed something.

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