Postfix question

[Waldher, Travis R]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob McClure Jr [mailto:robertmcclure at earthlink.net] 
> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 10:12 AM
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: Re: Postfix question
> 
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 09:30:01AM -0700, Waldher, Travis R wrote:
> > Under a directory
> > 
> > /var/spool/postfix/etc
> > 
> > There are files such as hosts, resolv.conf, etc.  Which are 
> supposed 
> > to be copies of the /etc files.
> > 
> > Why aren't these files just links to /etc so it would 
> always test ok, 
> > and if those files changed, postfix would change 
> automatically (minus 
> > having to run reload).
> 
> They might possibly be hard links, but only if /etc and 
> /var/spool/postfix/etc are on the same filesystem.  A symlink 
> won't work in the chroot environment.  But some editors or 
> change processes will break hard links, so that may not even work.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
> robertmcclure at earthlink.net  http://www.bobcatos.com Grace happens.

They aren't hard links, editing one, doesn't show up as a change in the
other.

So the question becomes, does postfix modify in anyway, those files
under postfix/etc.