[Slackbuilds-users] rc.postfix

[Nishant Limbachia]

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On 02/20/2013 04:41 AM, Eugen Wissner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> rc.6 which is executed during shutdown/reboot sets
> PATH=/sbin:/etc:/bin:/usr/bin. If I want to stop postfix automatically in
> rc.6 or rc.local_shutdown I get an error "postfix can't be found" because
> postfix is in /usr/sbin. Wouldn't it be better to write the full path in
> rc.postfix:
>
> postfix_start()
> {
> /usr/sbin/postfix start
> }
>
> postfix_stop()
> {
> /usr/sbin/postfix stop
> }
> ?
>
> Best regards
> Eugene
>
>
>
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I had the same issue and so instead of changing rc.6, I changed
rc.postfix to include full path to postfix binary.  Postfix also
supports 'status' command from version 2.9.x, I believe.  Here's the
diff of rc.postfix I use on my system that is the enhanced version of
the one on SBo.

Thanks,

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--- rc.postfix.SBo	2013-02-20 07:49:55.619007506 -0600
+++ rc.postfix	2013-02-20 07:49:12.753540045 -0600
@@ -22,12 +22,12 @@
 
 postfix_start()
 {
-  postfix start
+  /usr/sbin/postfix start
 }
 
 postfix_stop()
 {
-  postfix stop
+  /usr/sbin/postfix stop
 }
 
 postfix_restart()
@@ -38,7 +38,12 @@
 
 postfix_reload()
 {
-  postfix reload
+  /usr/sbin/postfix reload
+}
+
+postfix_status()
+{
+  /usr/sbin/postfix status
 }
 
 case $1 in
@@ -54,6 +59,9 @@
 'reload')
   postfix_reload
   ;;
+'status')
+  postfix_status
+  ;;
 *)
-  echo "usage $0 start|stop|restart|reload"
+  echo "usage $0 start|stop|restart|reload|status"
 esac