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Posted to sysadmins@spamassassin.apache.org by John Hardin <jh...@impsec.org> on 2026/04/23 13:49:51 UTC
Postfix on sa-vm
Okay, it's obvious the postfix restart config didn't work. Sorry I didn't
announce before restarting it manually.
I'm not deeply familiar with administering Ubuntu and they are playing
games with sysvinit vs. sysctl that I don't understand.
I'm going to remove the configured restart which apparently didn't help
and just add "service postfix start" to /etc/cron.hourly.
Somebody more familiar with what Ubuntu is doing to manage system services
can clean this up properly.
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Re: Postfix on sa-vm
Posted by John Hardin <jh...@impsec.org>.
On Thu, 23 Apr 2026, Giovanni Bechis wrote:
> On 4/23/26 3:49 PM, John Hardin wrote:
>>
>> Okay, it's obvious the postfix restart config didn't work. Sorry I didn't
>> announce before restarting it manually.
>>
>> I'm not deeply familiar with administering Ubuntu and they are playing
>> games with sysvinit vs. sysctl that I don't understand.
>>
>> I'm going to remove the configured restart which apparently didn't help
>> and just add "service postfix start" to /etc/cron.hourly.
>>
>> Somebody more familiar with what Ubuntu is doing to manage system services
>> can clean this up properly.
>>
> sa-vm is managed by Puppet, to change its configuration you need to open a PR
> on https://github.com/apache/infrastructure-p6 (you need to connect your
> Apache id to Github using Gitbox.a.o in order to get access to this repo).
> I've already tried to ensure that puppet keeps running on sa-vm but I had to
> revert the change because of some conflicting modules
> https://github.com/apache/infrastructure-p6/commit/959fa576fb2fe11f4c734724ecc14d39b0c89ecd
It will be a while before I can pursue _that_...
> I can retry to work on this, for the moment a cronjob should work (please
> document any change on
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SPAMASSASSIN/InfraNotes2020
Underway, thanks for the reminder.
> Thanks
> Giovanni
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Re: Postfix on sa-vm
Posted by Giovanni Bechis <gi...@paclan.it>.
On 4/23/26 3:49 PM, John Hardin wrote:
>
> Okay, it's obvious the postfix restart config didn't work. Sorry I didn't announce before restarting it manually.
>
> I'm not deeply familiar with administering Ubuntu and they are playing games with sysvinit vs. sysctl that I don't understand.
>
> I'm going to remove the configured restart which apparently didn't help and just add "service postfix start" to /etc/cron.hourly.
>
> Somebody more familiar with what Ubuntu is doing to manage system services can clean this up properly.
>
sa-vm is managed by Puppet, to change its configuration you need to open a PR on https://github.com/apache/infrastructure-p6 (you need to connect your Apache id to Github using Gitbox.a.o in order to get access to this repo).
I've already tried to ensure that puppet keeps running on sa-vm but I had to revert the change because of some conflicting modules
https://github.com/apache/infrastructure-p6/commit/959fa576fb2fe11f4c734724ecc14d39b0c89ecd
I can retry to work on this, for the moment a cronjob should work (please document any change on https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SPAMASSASSIN/InfraNotes2020
Thanks
Giovanni