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Date:      Tue, 27 Jul 2004 19:38:23 +0300
From:      Mike Makonnen <mtm@identd.net>
To:        Alex Kapranoff <kappa@rambler-co.ru>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: rc.d/localpkg
Message-ID:  <20040727163822.GC81394@rogue.acs-et.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040727113350.GA63833@capella.park.rambler.ru>
References:  <9B5C1FCAFB35084787C21EFFFA78DD9EE48B@EBE1.gc.nat> <20040727074253.GD1403@rogue.acs-et.com> <20040727113350.GA63833@capella.park.rambler.ru>

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On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 03:33:50PM +0400, Alex Kapranoff wrote:
> * Mike Makonnen <mtm@identd.net> [July 27 2004, 11:42]:
> > On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 03:00:53PM -0400, Robin P. Blanchard wrote:
> > > How does this apply to beasts such as postfix which recommends:
> > > 
> > > cd /usr/local/etc/rc.d
> > > ln -s /usr/local/sbin/postfix postfix.sh
> > 
> > That depends. If sbin/postfix is an old-style script then nothing will
> > have changed. It gets sourced same as before. If it's an rc.d script then
> > it will probably have to be patched to conform to rc.d style.
> 
> % file =postfix
> /usr/local/sbin/postfix: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), for FreeBSD 5.0.2, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped

Binary's should give 0 matches for rc.d keywords, so they will be treated like
old style scripts. However, it might be a good idea to make that explicit.

Cheers.
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