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Werk #14816: Enhance detection of postfix installation

Component Agent bakery
Title Enhance detection of postfix installation
Date Nov 7, 2022
Level Trivial Change
Class New Feature
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
2.2.0b1 Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk Cloud (CCE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
2.1.0p16 Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

We now can detect the PID of a running postfix instance if it is not installed in /var/spool/postfix. To do this we search for the pid file in the queue directory as reported by postconf.

You can find the new instances after updating the check mk agent.

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