Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 09:49:16 -0500 From: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> To: Alex Kapranoff <kappa@rambler-co.ru> Cc: Mike Makonnen <mtm@identd.net> Subject: Re: rc.d/localpkg Message-ID: <790a9fff04072707497059c616@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20040727113350.GA63833@capella.park.rambler.ru> References: <9B5C1FCAFB35084787C21EFFFA78DD9EE48B@EBE1.gc.nat> <20040727113350.GA63833@capella.park.rambler.ru>
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On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 15:33:50 +0400, Alex Kapranoff <kappa@rambler-co.ru> wrote: > * Mike Makonnen <mtm@identd.net> [July 27 2004, 11:42]: > > On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 03:00:53PM -0400, Robin P. Blanchard wrote: > > > How does this apply to beasts such as postfix which recommends: > > > > > > cd /usr/local/etc/rc.d > > > ln -s /usr/local/sbin/postfix postfix.sh > > > > That depends. If sbin/postfix is an old-style script then nothing will > > have changed. It gets sourced same as before. If it's an rc.d script then > > it will probably have to be patched to conform to rc.d style. > > % file =postfix > /usr/local/sbin/postfix: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), for FreeBSD 5.0.2, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped > Since the program postfix is not a shell script the recommendation is to create a rcNG shell script to start and stop postfix, instead of creating a link to the executeable. This way you could pass flags to postfix by defining postfix_flags in /etc/rc.conf, /etc/rc.conf.local, or /etc/rc.conf.d/postfix. Scot
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