Re: Systemd dependencies
On Mon, 26 Feb 2018, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 11:53:27AM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 11:13:03AM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote:
> > > > However I really would start one step before. What exactly do you
> > > > think
> > > > a service dependency on "mail-transport-agent" does provide you?
> > > Actually it's the other way round. I need my program, clamsmtp, to
> > > start before postfix. I haven't checked with the other MTAs to be
> > > honest. So I guess I could try only adding postfix and see if somebody
> > > reports a problem.
> >
> > No, this is no reason to introduce such sequence points. You don't even
> > know that the MTA runs on the same system.
> >
> Unless it is designed to only interact with an MTA running on the same
> system.
In which case, if it is postfix, you could just ignore it. It knows to
try again any transports that fail, it knows to do controlled backoff
and all that jazz, does so by default, and has sane defaults even.
But it will pester you in the logs about it, though.
--
Henrique Holschuh
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