From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 27 11:03:34 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA08763 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 11:03:34 -0700 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA08757 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 11:03:31 -0700 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA10564; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 10:58:58 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199509271758.KAA10564@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: ports startup scripts To: gryphon@healer.com (Coranth Gryphon) Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 10:58:58 -0700 (MST) Cc: gryphon@healer.com, terry@lambert.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jmb@kryten.atinc.com, patl@asimov.volant.org, peter@taronga.com In-Reply-To: <199509271357.JAA20583@healer.com> from "Coranth Gryphon" at Sep 27, 95 09:57:26 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 824 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? 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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.