Re: jessie release goals
On 2013-05-19 09:17:31 +0200, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote:
> Le 16/05/2013 08:43, Vincent Lefevre a écrit :
> > On 2013-05-15 20:27:09 +0200, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote:
> >> No. Your server comes unconfigured, you do configure it while the other
> >> is still working, and then you stop the service on the first, finish
> >> syncing the mailboxes, switch the MX record, and then you can go to
> >> rest.
> >
> > This is not possible, as I have only one server (which is sufficient
> > for a personal server).
> >
> If this is a first configuration, then the mail was not working before
> anyway. So you are not losing thousands of emails.
>
> It this is not, then you are already configured, and debconf will not
> touch your files.
It was a complete reinstallation (not an upgrade). Of course, I could
copy the configuration files. But if there were incompatible changes
in the new version of postfix, things could break. So, I wanted to
restart from clean config files and update them.
--
Vincent Lefèvre <vincent@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/>
100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/>
Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
Reply to: