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Date:      Wed, 27 Sep 1995 07:18:36 -0700
From:      patl@asimov.volant.org
To:        gryphon@healer.com, terry@lambert.org
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org, jmb@kryten.atinc.com, peter@taronga.com
Subject:   Re: ports startup scripts
Message-ID:  <9509271418.AA02318@asimov.volant.org>

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|>  From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
|>  > I want to replace the SMTP agent with my own.  What is the current
|>  > agent's name?  How did you determine this?
|>  
|>  How is ANY automated procedure going to determine this?
|>  
|>  And if you just "add a script to the directory" then both will be running.
|>  So you have to delete the old daemon, and put the new one in.
|>  
|>  Either you have an automated means to do this, or you don't.

True.  But consider what happens if you then install something that
has a startup dependancy on having an SMTP server running.  If it
is using a fixed sequence number, it doesn't care what the SMTP
server is called; it just assumes that any replacement will use the
same sequence number as the original.  But if you are trying to do
install-time dependancy checking, it must somehow be told the new
SMTP service name.



-Pat



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