From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 27 07:15:02 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id HAA01508 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 07:15:02 -0700 Received: from phoenix.volant.org (root@phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA01497 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 07:14:58 -0700 From: patl@asimov.volant.org Received: from asimov.volant.org (asimov.volant.org [205.179.79.65]) by phoenix.volant.org (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id HAA18110; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 07:12:55 -0700 Received: by asimov.volant.org (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA02318; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 07:18:36 -0700 Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 07:18:36 -0700 Message-Id: <9509271418.AA02318@asimov.volant.org> To: gryphon@healer.com, terry@lambert.org Subject: Re: ports startup scripts Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, jmb@kryten.atinc.com, peter@taronga.com X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk |> From: Terry Lambert |> > 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