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It doesn't really matter either way, because the symptom will be that you can't send mail; either that's how you find out or you have a proper monitoring soluti
by andreasvc 13y ago
It doesn't really matter either way, because the symptom will be that you can't send mail; either that's how you find out or you have a proper monitoring solution, in which case it doesn't matter whether Postfix actually died or is patiently waiting for the resource to become available. To sum up, I don't see why dependencies need to exist, it seems better to write daemons in such a way that they can deal with temporary absence of resources.
- mercurial 13y agoIt does matter. Why are you starting postfix if you have no network? You have plenty of use cases where boot speed is actually important.
- pekk 13y agoOn a mail server, it is no great improvement to rapidly boot to a state where mail is not working.
- mercurial 13y agoObviously, this was just an example. If you're making an appliance, boot speed matters. If you're aiming for a fast desktop experience, boot speed matters.
- cwyers 13y agoThis probably hinges on how you define the word "great," but you can diagnose a nonfunctioning mail server a lot easier if it's actually booted up.