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From: Wietse Venema (no email)
Date: Thu Nov 01 2007 - 15:39:57 EDT
Victor Duchovni:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:59:49PM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote:
>
> > > I don't know a more efficient way to test reliability of password
> > > lookups. When failure sets in, does it really fail all local recipients
> > > indefinitely? Is "reload" enough to solve the issue? Once the problem
> > > happens, you can "ktrace" the local delivery agent and perhaps learn
> > > what is breaking.
> >
> > Maybe you can send him the patched mypwd.c file (or tarball).
>
> There are a lot dependencies on vstrings, hash tables, ... it is easier
> to download a Postfix tarball I think...
The typical MacOS uses is not a programmer, so giving them
the patched file takes away one barrier.
On the other hand, why use a C program for this? A Perl script
could make the same getpwnam() calls that Postfix makes.
Wietse
> Perhaps before running the test harness we can learn something from
> ktrace(1) of the local delivery agent that is failing to find a valid
> user.
>
> --
> Viktor.
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