On Thu, May 27, 2004, Darrell Fuhriman wrote:
> "Ralf S. Engelschall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > http://cvs.openpkg.org/chngview?cn=17179 for details. What is now just
> > missing is a rc.imap file for the daemons...
>
> I was going to ask about that, actually.
>
> UW IMAP daemons expect to be run out of (x)inetd.
>
> It's easy enough to include an xinetd configuration file, but I
> wasn't sure if that should be included or be left as an exercise
> to the reader.
>
> I don't see any example packages using xinetd, so I wanted to
> know if there was a standard way of doing that in the OpenPKG
> paradigm.
>
> (Another possible alternative is to use a standalone app like
> qmail's tcpserver, but I don't think anything like that is
> included in the standard OpenPKG distribution.)
You now have two options: depend on xinetd and provide a xinetd config
file or add a daemon wrapper which emulated the inetd feature just for
the imap package. Look into the uucp package for an example
how such a little daemon wrapper can be implemented.
Ralf S. Engelschall
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www.engelschall.com
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