From: Liviu Daia (no email)
Date: Mon Apr 01 2002 - 23:56:04 EST
On 1 April 2002, Clifton Royston <> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 01:00:46AM +0300, Liviu Daia wrote:
> > On 1 April 2002, <> wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Liviu Daia wrote:
> > > > That won't work as long as some files / sockets / whatever
> > > > associated to maps are opened before going into the chroot jail
> > > > while others are opened (not necessarily by Postfix --- think
> > > > MySQL) after that operation.
> > >
> > > It does not have to catch all problems, it just has to be
> > > useful. If the map checks are part of "postfix validate" rather
> > > than "postfix check" false positives for error conditions are OK.
> >
> > IMO, a "postfix validate" should actually do what is says:
> > validate the config. IOW, it should be 100% accurate. The utility
> > you suggest is simply too fragile --- it would both generate false
> > positives and miss real problems (f.i. for reasons related to
> > permissions).
>
> Hmmm, is this turning into an argument on semantics?
Among other things, my point was actually about user expectations
and support.
[...]
> (IOW, if Victor Duchovnik codes such an enhancement, I for one will
> use it.)
[...]
As Victor himself pointed out, such an utility would be a PITA
to write to be of _any_ use whatsoever (see Victor's example about
btree:$config_directory/filename).
Regards,
Liviu Daia
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