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From: Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@healer.com>
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>From terry@lambert.org Wed Sep 27 14:07:15 1995
Subject: Re: ports startup scripts
To: gryphon@healer.com (Coranth Gryphon)
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 10:58:58 -0700 (MST)
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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
> 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.

If you can automatically recognize what to replace and where, then
*FOR THAT CONCERN* it doesn't matter which method to use.

-coranth

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