RE: suddenly bounced 15346 mails, what caused it?

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Covington, Chris wrote:

> >This is, however a rare problem. Major changes should not
> >be made while the MTA is running.
>
> I've always vi-ed main.cf, master.cf and postfix reload-ed, without
> issues. How could this be? I guess I should change procedures.
>

Luck. Postfix processes are spawned relatively infrequently (~3 processes
per 100 messages), vi saves its output quickly. The long lived processes
(qmgr, trivial-rewrite, ...) restart quite rarely and so the problem in
there is one, in most cases goes away quickly.

--
Viktor.