postfix postmulti cannot open dynamicmaps.cf

[Georg Sauthoff]

When using postmulti to create a new postfix instance, I get following error on Ubuntu 10.04:

# postmulti -I postfix-instance2 -G privategroup -e create
postfix: warning: dict_open_dlinfo: cannot open /etc/postfix-instance2/dynamicmaps.cf. No dynamic maps will be allowed.

A workaround is to create a link to the global dynamicmaps.cf, since usually it is not instance specific:

/etc/postfix-instance2# ln -s /etc/postfix/dynamicmaps.cf

See also: http://old.nabble.com/Error-in-postmulti-td26424171.html

The purpose of dynamicmaps.cf is explained in:
https://groups.google.com/group/mailing.postfix.users/browse_thread/thread/4c4c00180149929d/fee036b26d1e47b2

This Bug is related to Bug #624522, because this is another multi instance issue.

Please fix it, such that a default dynamicmaps.cf is created when creating a new instance via postmulti.

For an introduction to postfix instances see: http://www.postfix.org/MULTI_INSTANCE_README.html

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

Thanks for submitting this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

I took a look and couldn't find an open bug with Debian. Would you like to submit it (so you automatically get notifications)? If not I'll go ahead and do it, just wanted to make sure.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

There's no need to file a Debian bug. The Debian Postfix monitors Ubuntu bugs too.

[Georg Sauthoff (g-sauthoff)]

Thanks, never really used the Debian Bug system yet, thus, please go ahead.

[Carlo Comincini (f-carlo)]

3 years gone and still the error is issued when creating a postmulti istance...