Re: postfix, anyone

[rory]

> On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 06:35:28PM -0700, Rory Toma wrote:
>> Before I go and figure out how to do this...
>
>> I'm now running monit on my personal server (monit's not just for work
>> anymore!) and one of the things I run is postfix instead of sendmail.
>> Does anyone have a working monitrc statement for postfix? I believe it
>> runs at least master and qmgr regularly. However these are all started
>> from a postfix binary that starts other binaries and then exits, so
>> the hacking pid file into init script doesn't work. I suppose one
>> could modify qmgr and master to write pid files, but it would be nice
>> to work without that.
>
> from my monitrc:
> check master with pidfile /var/spool/postfix/pid/master.pid
>        start program = "/etc/init.d/postfix start"
>        stop  program = "/etc/init.d/postfix stop"
>        port 25 use type tcp with proto smtp
>        alert address@hidden
>

Gee. The pid file is right there... Next time, I'll just look instead of
reading thru the docs. 8-)
Thx.

> it works ...
>
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> Igor Homyakov
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