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From: Brent Kearney <brent@kearneys.ca>
To: polarbear@asiamail.com
Cc: questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Starting Qmail As Background Process
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On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 06:22:24AM -0800, polarbear@asiamail.com wrote:
> I have the following in my /etc/rc.local file,
>=20
> I will appreciate it very much if someone can enlighten me on how to modi=
fy the commands above so that they will stay as background executing proces=
ses.
>=20

Here's my qmail.sh, from /usr/local/etc/rc.d/.  If you have non-standard
services to run, you should start them via shell scripts in this directory.
You may have to modify this to suit your system...

-Brent

------
#!/bin/sh

# file: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/qmail.sh
#
# Starts qmail using tcpserver, instead of inetd
#=20
# -brent@kearneys.ca, May 4, 1999

# Start the qmail daemon:
if [ -x /usr/local/bin/tcpserver ]; then
   if [ -x /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd ]; then
      /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 82 -g 81 0 \
      smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger \
      smtpd 3 &=20

      echo "Starting qmaild..."
      echo
   else
      echo "qmail-smtpd not found."
      echo
fi
else
   echo "tcpserver not found."
   echo
fi

# Launch the defacto qmail script, for everything else
if [ -x /var/qmail/rc ]; then
   /bin/sh -cf '/var/qmail/rc &'
else
   echo "/var/qmail/rc not found or not executable"
   echo
fi


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