Wednesday, November 06, 2024

Re: no cron email after restarting smtpd

On Wed, Nov 06, 2024 at 03:36:47PM +0100, Omar Polo wrote:

>
> On 06/11/24 12:55, Jan Stary wrote:
> > On Nov 06 09:40:26, peter@200mmx.net wrote:
> >> Restarting smtpd (e.g. after renewing acme certs) in a cron job
> > So, restarting after a cert change, or restarting in a cron job?
> > Do you renew the certs in a cron job too?
> > Why would you be restarting smtpd in a cron job?
>
> How do you manage smtpd certs?
>
> acme-client example.com && rcctl reload httpd && rcctl restart smtpd
>
> doesn't seem strange to me, and shouldn't incur in email losses. I'll try to replicate.
>

I think cron runs with a pipe to a local MSA process. That MSA process gets stopped
on smtpd restart

-Otto

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