Re: why every minute: 'reload configuration /etc/postfix' - SOLVED

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Subject:	Re: why every minute: 'reload configuration /etc/postfix' - SOLVED
Group:	Postfix-users
From:	(Wietse Venema)
Date:	9 May 2008

Andy Spiegl:
> And I just discovered that I can reproduce this behavior on servers
> with Debian 3.1 (sarge):
>
> debian31:~#/etc/init.d/bind9 restart
> Stopping domain name service: named.
> Starting domain name service: named.
>
> debian31:~#tailf /var/log/mail.log
> ...
> May 9 11:34:01 debian31 postfix/postfix-script: refreshing the Postfix mail system
> May 9 11:34:05 debian31 postfix/master[20563]: reload configuration
> ...
> May 9 11:34:07 debian31 postfix/postfix-script: refreshing the Postfix mail system
> May 9 11:34:07 debian31 postfix/master[20563]: reload configuration
> ...

What a braindead idea. Why not reboot the box, too.

Wietse