Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 15:02:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Chris D. Faulhaber" <cdf.lists@fxp.org>
To: Markus Holmberg <saska@acc.umu.se>
Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: postfix not installing startup script in ${PREFIX}/etc/rc.d ?
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910181451440.10745-100000@pawn.primelocation.net>
In-Reply-To: <19991018192340.A4466@shaka.acc.umu.se>
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On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Markus Holmberg wrote:
>
> It seems like the postfix port doesn't install any startup script in ${PREFIX}/etc/rc.d, which means it has to be brought up manually with "postfix start" each time you reboot (unless you make your own script of course :)).
>
> The reason I'm asking is because this port is so "big" (as in widely used) that this seems quite unlikely to be the case, so I'd just like to know what I missed :). (Mailing list searches gave no results.)
>
> Just wondering, did I miss something? Shouldn't the port throw this kind of script in? (into /usr/local/etc/rc.d)
>
If you 'make replace', /usr/sbin/sendmail is replaced with Postfix's
sendmail, the "Postfix to Sendmail compatibility interface". In other
words, your existing sendmail startup commands in /etc/rc*
(/usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q30m) should still work, starting Postfix instead
of sendmail.
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