[gentoo-dev] Postfix config-what happened?

[gentoo-dev] Postfix config-what happened?

[C. Brewer]

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I just popped in the new postfix (2.0.16) and saw this during etc-update:

default_destination_concurrency_limit = 2
alias_database = hash:/etc/mail/aliases
local_destination_concurrency_limit = 2
alias_maps = hash:/etc/mail/aliases

tacked on the bottom of main.cf...these variables have their own little
blocks they were stripped out of just to re-tack them back on the end. I
realize it doesn't affect the way it operates, but it does throw off a
merging of the config file, when you expect to see what you have versus what
etc-update wants to do, and it disappears till the end. I know it's trivial,
but you have to sit back and wonder wtf just happened.....

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Postfix config-what happened?

[Max Kalika]

Quoting "C. Brewer" <cbrewer@stealthaccess.net>:

> I realize it doesn't affect the way it operates, but it does throw off a
> merging of the config file, when you expect to see what you have versus
> what etc-update wants to do, and it disappears till the end. I know it's
> trivial, but you have to sit back and wonder wtf just happened.....

>From the ChangeLog:
  ... use newly installed postconf to set defaults instead of custom
  patch/sed calls -- makes it much more resilient to upstream changes ...

Just zap the new one if you're happy with the way yours works.

--mk

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Postfix config-what happened?

[C. Brewer]

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On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 07:50:41 -0700
Max Kalika <max@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Just zap the new one if you're happy with the way yours works.
> 
> --mk

 Hmm,okay...Postconf is great if you really know what options you want to
set and all, but major overkill if you're not familiar with the options (or
just doing system mail where 75% of that stuff is non-necessary). But my
point was simply this..the block for local_destination-concurrency_limit = 2
is at line 566..but you have at EOF, so during an etc-update merge you have
this:
#my_config_setting			>
instead of 
#my_config_setting			|#default_setting

so you don't get to see what the default setting on those was till the end,
and it really cramps an interactive merge. It should look like you're
merging two almost identical files, instead of slapping crap at the end.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Postfix config-what happened?

[Dhruba Bandopadhyay]

<quote who="C. Brewer">
> I just popped in the new postfix (2.0.16) and saw this during etc-update:
>
> default_destination_concurrency_limit = 2
> alias_database = hash:/etc/mail/aliases
> local_destination_concurrency_limit = 2
> alias_maps = hash:/etc/mail/aliases
>
> tacked on the bottom of main.cf...these variables have their own little
> blocks they were stripped out of just to re-tack them back on the end. I

Hello

Yes.  I have to say that I too found this particular oddity quite
inconvenient and unconventional.  The following was found at the end of
/etc/postfix/main.cf on a fresh merge of postfix 2.0.16-r1.

readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.0.16-r1/readme
default_destination_concurrency_limit = 2
alias_database = hash:/etc/mail/aliases
local_destination_concurrency_limit = 2
alias_maps = hash:/etc/mail/aliases
home_mailbox = .maildir/

I'd already been through the entire file and configured these very options
earlier in the file and then found them repeated at the bottom resulting
in  duplicates.  Can these not be placed at the correct positions in the
file?

Also, the default for default_destination_concurrency_limit is 20 whereas
the options given at the bottom of the file changes it to 2.  Is this
correct?

With regards.
Dhruba Bandopadhyay.

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