--On Thursday, February 03, 2005 4:58 PM +0100 Ralf Ertzinger
<fedora-devel(a)camperquake.de> wrote:
OK, since postfix was mentioned earlier as aservice which would need
this
(binding to interfaces): changing the postfix config from "listen only
on localhost" (similar to what sendmail does in it's default config)
to "listen on an external network interface" would change it's dependency:
in the first case it does not care about external networks (localhost is
always available), in the second case it does.
How is this supposed to be managed?
This is going to be true of a lot of system services that pre-date the
hot-plug paradigm and don't respond dynamically to changing prerequisites.
BIND has the same issue. My guess is that until those services become
hot-plug-aware, they'll have to be restarted with different configurations
for each possible environment. That's yet another reason a clean generic
solution isn't possible to retrofit non-intrusively.