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From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: Replacing sendmail
To: danny@panda.hilink.com.au (Daniel O'Callaghan)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961127120622.1605C-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> from "Daniel O'Callaghan" at Nov 27, 96 01:48:31 pm
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> Here is another way of achieving a similar end, which is already half 
> implemented.
> 
> On Sys-V based systems (well, Irix, at least, is where  I saw it), and 
> now in FreeBSD:/usr/local/rc.d/* the daemon startup files are run
> as 'xntpd start'.
> 
> This could be extended to
> 
> 'pkg command', where 
> 
> pkg={sendmail|qmail|apache|...}
> 
> and
> 
> command={start|stop|enable|disable}.
> 
> Just a thought for something flexible and extensible.

That's more or less what we are discussing, the end result is the same.

... JG