From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Oct 18 12: 2:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from pawn.primelocation.net (pawn.primelocation.net [205.161.238.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A508D14BCA for ; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 12:02:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cdf.lists@fxp.org) Received: by pawn.primelocation.net (Postfix, from userid 1016) id ED6039B22; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 15:02:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pawn.primelocation.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF2B9BA1C; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 15:02:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 15:02:45 -0400 (EDT) From: "Chris D. Faulhaber" X-Sender: cdf.lists@pawn.primelocation.net To: Markus Holmberg Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: postfix not installing startup script in ${PREFIX}/etc/rc.d ? In-Reply-To: <19991018192340.A4466@shaka.acc.umu.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Markus Holmberg wrote: > > It seems like the postfix port doesn't install any startup script in ${PREFIX}/etc/rc.d, which means it has to be brought up manually with "postfix start" each time you reboot (unless you make your own script of course :)). > > The reason I'm asking is because this port is so "big" (as in widely used) that this seems quite unlikely to be the case, so I'd just like to know what I missed :). (Mailing list searches gave no results.) > > Just wondering, did I miss something? Shouldn't the port throw this kind of script in? (into /usr/local/etc/rc.d) > If you 'make replace', /usr/sbin/sendmail is replaced with Postfix's sendmail, the "Postfix to Sendmail compatibility interface". In other words, your existing sendmail startup commands in /etc/rc* (/usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q30m) should still work, starting Postfix instead of sendmail. ----- Chris D. Faulhaber | All the true gurus I've met never System/Network Administrator, | claimed they were one, and always Reality Check Information, Inc. | pointed to someone better. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message