Re: Adding additional postfix server to init daemon
Hans du Plooy wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 18:23 -0800, Adam D wrote:
>> I just have created additional postfix servers on the mail server and
>> would like to add the additional configs into the init daemon but
>> looking at the scrip from LaMont Jones I am not able to decipher where
>> to put the additional servers. I have an old script which is shorter
>> and does not have a lot of the extra codes as the newest one.
>>
>> Does anyone have an idea as to add additional postfix servers? I am a
>> bit perplexed.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -Adam
>>
>
> Do I understand you correctly that you're running two (or more)
> instances of postfix?
>
> This is what I use on Sarge for two instances. It's easily expandable
> to handle more. You'll see the config dir for the second instance
> is /etc/postfix-out:
>
Thank you. That was a script I had used in the passed and worked very well. Sadly I don't know much about programing or the like but what is the difference with this one and the standard postfix init script maintained by the Debian package maintainer?
-Adam
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> # Start or stop TWO Postfix Instances
> # Assumes first instance config files are in /etc/postfix
> # and second instance files are in /etc/postfix-out
> #
> # For Debian Linux 3.0.
> #
>
> PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
> DAEMON=/usr/sbin/postfix
> NAME=Postfix
>
> case "$1" in
> start)
> echo -n "Starting mail transport agent: Postfix"
>
> $DAEMON start 2>&1 |
> (grep -v 'starting the Postfix' 1>&2 || /bin/true)
> echo "."
> echo -n "Starting mail transport agent: Postfix-out"
>
> $DAEMON -c /etc/postfix-out start 2>&1 |
> (grep -v 'starting the Postfix' 1>&2 || /bin/true)
> echo "."
> ;;
>
> stop)
> echo -n "Stopping mail transport agent: Postfix"
> $DAEMON stop 2>&1 |
> (grep -v 'stopping the Postfix' 1>&2 || /bin/true)
> echo "."
> echo -n "Stopping mail transport agent: Postfix-out"
> $DAEMON -c /etc/postfix-out stop 2>&1 |
> (grep -v 'stopping the Postfix' 1>&2 || /bin/true)
> echo "."
> ;;
>
> restart)
> $0 stop
> $0 start
> ;;
> *)
> echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/postfix {start|stop|restart}"
> exit 1
> ;;
> esac
>
> exit 0
>
>
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