Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 20:05:55 +0400 From: Alex Kapranoff <kappa@rambler-co.ru> To: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com>, "Robin P. Blanchard" <robin.blanchard@gactr.uga.edu>, current@freebsd.org, Mike Makonnen <mtm@identd.net> Subject: Re: rc.d/localpkg Message-ID: <20040727160555.GA65312@capella.park.rambler.ru> In-Reply-To: <20040727152043.GA70747@minubian.inethouston.net> References: <9B5C1FCAFB35084787C21EFFFA78DD9EE48B@EBE1.gc.nat> <20040727113350.GA63833@capella.park.rambler.ru> <790a9fff04072707497059c616@mail.gmail.com> <20040727152043.GA70747@minubian.inethouston.net>
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* David W. Chapman Jr. <dwcjr@inethouston.net> [July 27 2004, 19:20]: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 09:49:16AM -0500, Scot Hetzel wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 15:33:50 +0400, Alex Kapranoff <kappa@rambler-co.ru> wrote: > > > > > 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. > > postfix really would not need any flags passed to it at startup time > except "start" so this wouldn't be a problem either. Except that sourcing binary executables into shell is counter-productive whether there're additional vars or not :) -- Alex Kapranoff.
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