1<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" 2 "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> 3<html> <head> 4<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> 5<title> Postfix manual - postkick(1) </title> 6</head> <body> <pre> 7POSTKICK(1) POSTKICK(1) 8 9<b>NAME</b> 10 postkick - kick a Postfix service 11 12<b>SYNOPSIS</b> 13 <b>postkick</b> [<b>-c</b> <i>config</i><b>_</b><i>dir</i>] [<b>-v</b>] <i>class service request</i> 14 15<b>DESCRIPTION</b> 16 The <a href="postkick.1.html"><b>postkick</b>(1)</a> command sends <i>request</i> to the specified <i>service</i> over a 17 local transport channel. This command makes Postfix private IPC acces- 18 sible for use in, for example, shell scripts. 19 20 Options: 21 22 <b>-c</b> <i>config</i><b>_</b><i>dir</i> 23 Read the <a href="postconf.5.html"><b>main.cf</b></a> configuration file in the named directory 24 instead of the default configuration directory. 25 26 <b>-v</b> Enable verbose logging for debugging purposes. Multiple <b>-v</b> 27 options make the software increasingly verbose. 28 29 Arguments: 30 31 <i>class</i> Name of a class of local transport channel endpoints, either 32 <b>public</b> (accessible by any local user) or <b>private</b> (administrative 33 access only). 34 35 <i>service</i> 36 The name of a local transport endpoint within the named class. 37 38 <i>request</i> 39 A string. The list of valid requests is service-specific. 40 41<b>DIAGNOSTICS</b> 42 Problems and transactions are logged to the standard error stream. 43 44<b>ENVIRONMENT</b> 45 <b>MAIL_CONFIG</b> 46 Directory with Postfix configuration files. 47 48 <b>MAIL_VERBOSE</b> 49 Enable verbose logging for debugging purposes. 50 51<b>CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS</b> 52 The following <a href="postconf.5.html"><b>main.cf</b></a> parameters are especially relevant to this pro- 53 gram. The text below provides only a parameter summary. See <a href="postconf.5.html"><b>post-</b></a> 54 <a href="postconf.5.html"><b>conf</b>(5)</a> for more details including examples. 55 56 <b><a href="postconf.5.html#config_directory">config_directory</a> (see 'postconf -d' output)</b> 57 The default location of the Postfix <a href="postconf.5.html">main.cf</a> and <a href="master.5.html">master.cf</a> con- 58 figuration files. 59 60 <b><a href="postconf.5.html#application_event_drain_time">application_event_drain_time</a> (100s)</b> 61 How long the <a href="postkick.1.html"><b>postkick</b>(1)</a> command waits for a request to enter 62 the Postfix daemon process input buffer before giving up. 63 64 <b><a href="postconf.5.html#queue_directory">queue_directory</a> (see 'postconf -d' output)</b> 65 The location of the Postfix top-level queue directory. 66 67<b>FILES</b> 68 /var/spool/postfix/private, private class endpoints 69 /var/spool/postfix/public, public class endpoints 70 71<b>SEE ALSO</b> 72 <a href="qmgr.8.html">qmgr(8)</a>, queue manager trigger protocol 73 <a href="pickup.8.html">pickup(8)</a>, local pickup daemon 74 <a href="postconf.5.html">postconf(5)</a>, configuration parameters 75 76<b>LICENSE</b> 77 The Secure Mailer license must be distributed with this software. 78 79<b>AUTHOR(S)</b> 80 Wietse Venema 81 IBM T.J. Watson Research 82 P.O. Box 704 83 Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA 84 85 POSTKICK(1) 86</pre> </body> </html> 87