I agree about the "one size DOESN'T fit all" problem. Would be nice to be able to download them from the web site though...or in a RedHat/Fedora folder or something.
> I think the init scripts that John M. Brown posted are for RedHat only, > and should be put in some redhat specific folder, or made available from > the dbmail website or something. I several distros have their own way > of doing things and we shouldn't try to write a one size fits all init > script. > > Matthew > > > > > Paul J Stevens wrote: > >> >> Will, >> >> Now why aint you using the native debian packages :-) But then the >> debian init scripts are probably not portable either. Also they don't >> include lmtpd support yet either. A todo. >> >> Seriously, I second your request. Or better yet, should be trivial to >> fix. I'll get onto it as part of the dynamic preforking patch I've >> already included in the 2.0 experimental packages. >> >> Will Berry wrote: >> >>> Feature request for 2.0! Ideally the two servers should be enhanced >>> to provide a command line option "-p $PIDFILE", or something like it, >>> and write the parent process' pid to the specified location at >>> startup. Then the stop verb of the init script would be changed to >>> simply "kill `cat $PIDFILE`". If I find time in the next couple of >>> days, I may make these changes myself and submit them. (Or is there a >>> clever shell script hack to do this?) > _______________________________________________ > Dbmail mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail >
