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Date:      Wed, 27 Sep 1995 10:58:58 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        gryphon@healer.com (Coranth Gryphon)
Cc:        gryphon@healer.com, terry@lambert.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jmb@kryten.atinc.com, patl@asimov.volant.org, peter@taronga.com
Subject:   Re: ports startup scripts
Message-ID:  <199509271758.KAA10564@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199509271357.JAA20583@healer.com> from "Coranth Gryphon" at Sep 27, 95 09:57:26 am

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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?

Service categories to allow auto-generation of a "pick one of the
following as your mail transport agent".

> 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.

Yes, that's true.  Or rather, you have to rm the symlink, but leave
them both in init.d, and create a new symlink.

> Either you have an automated means to do this, or you don't.

You do.  It *must* be automated.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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or previous employers.



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