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#import_environment">import_environment</a> (see 'postconf -d' output)</b> 65 The list of environment parameters that a privileged Postfix 66 process will import from a non-Postfix parent process, or 67 name=value environment overrides. 68 69 <b><a href="postconf.5.html#queue_directory">queue_directory</a> (see 'postconf -d' output)</b> 70 The location of the Postfix top-level queue directory. 71 72<b>FILES</b> 73 /var/spool/postfix/private, private class endpoints 74 /var/spool/postfix/public, public class endpoints 75 76<b>SEE ALSO</b> 77 <a href="qmgr.8.html">qmgr(8)</a>, queue manager trigger protocol 78 <a href="pickup.8.html">pickup(8)</a>, local pickup daemon 79 <a href="postconf.5.html">postconf(5)</a>, configuration parameters 80 81<b>LICENSE</b> 82 The Secure Mailer license must be distributed with this software. 83 84<b>AUTHOR(S)</b> 85 Wietse Venema 86 IBM T.J. Watson Research 87 P.O. Box 704 88 Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA 89 90 Wietse Venema 91 Google, Inc. 92 111 8th Avenue 93 New York, NY 10011, USA 94 95 POSTKICK(1) 96</pre> </body> </html> 97