Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 22:16:13 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: danny@panda.hilink.com.au (Daniel O'Callaghan) Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Replacing sendmail Message-ID: <199611270416.WAA18221@brasil.moneng.mei.com> 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
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