[pve-devel] [RFC cluster] pmxcfs startup: order before MTAs

[Aaron Lauterer]

If the systemd ordering is okay, what about how we have with Ceph, where we 
place the "ceph-after-pve-cluster.conf" for each service instead of changing the 
pve-cluster.service?

See my recent patch regarding this [0].



[0] https://lists.proxmox.com/pipermail/pve-devel/2022-July/053546.html

On 9/5/22 13:58, Stoiko Ivanov wrote:
> currently pmxcfs and the running mta (postfix in most cases I assume)
> have no ordering between them - resulting in the mta starting before
> pmxcfs.
> 
> This can be problematic in case of a mail for 'root' being in the
> mailq: postfix tries to deliver the mail - pvemailforward tries to
> look up the destination address in /etc/pve/user.cfg and gets a
> connection refused since pmxcfs is not running yet.
> 
> reported via our community-forum:
> https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/.108893/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stoiko Ivanov <s.ivanov at proxmox.com>
> ---
> sending as RFC, since while thinking about this issue and discussing it
> off-list (thx @Fiona!) the following alternative approaches were/are
> considered:
> * letting pvemailforward.pl exit with an error-code - sadly does not work
>    as the only difference is that postfix generates a bounce for the mail
>    and in (the most-common) case of root being the sender that bounce is
>    also undeliverable, and thus dropped
> * the fix through systemd-ordering does work for this case - but seems
>    not quite fitting (after all pmxcfs and postfix can happily exist w/o
>    the other - only delivering mail to root does not work) - also
>    the issue also happens if pmxcfs is not available for other reasons
> * an alternative approach would be to retry fetching the information from
>    pmxcfs a few times (afair postfix' command-timeout is 1000s for this),
>    e.g. like we do in the installer when looking for the correct ISO.
> 
>   debian/pve-cluster.service | 1 +
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/debian/pve-cluster.service b/debian/pve-cluster.service
> index 4327055..fb706be 100644
> --- a/debian/pve-cluster.service
> +++ b/debian/pve-cluster.service
> @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ Wants=corosync.service
>   Wants=rrdcached.service
>   Before=corosync.service
>   Before=cron.service
> +Before=postfix.service exim4.service sendmail.service qmail.service
>   After=network.target
>   After=sys-fs-fuse-connections.mount
>   After=time-sync.target