I already understood that neither qmailctl or qmail-conf are required.
However, qmailctl seems to be the new "official" script (according to Life
with Qmail) to interactively start/stop/restart qmail-send, qmail-smtpd, and
qmail-pop3d, as opposed to manually typing multiple svc commands.
I was looking for the "official" method of interactively
starting/stopping/restarting qmail-lapd (which includes slapd).
I was also trying to understand how qmailctl intends to actually stop the
services as there is no "official" stop script in the same directory as the
"run" script being used to start each service. The "svc -d
/service/<directory>" command only stops the supervising. It doesn't
necessarily actually kill the associated daemon(s).
For example, svc -d would stop supervising the run script used to start
slapd, but wouldn't necessarily cause the actual slapd daemons to exit
because svc doesn't know that the best way to stop slapd is with the INT
signal.
>From: Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: slapd start/stop
>Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 11:46:03 +0200
>
>On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 04:59:47AM -0000, pop corn wrote:
> > 3) However, Section 8.1.4 Startup Scripts recommends a set of scripts
>from
> > Tetsu Ushijima (qmail-conf). I don't understand whether it is best to
>work
> > with qmail-conf or to continue to build upon qmailctl.
>
>qmail-conf is just a set of programs making the setu of the start scripts
>dramatically easier. There is no need for qmailctl at all, you can
>accomplish everything using the svc program from daemontools.
>
> > 4) Section 8.3 IMAP says that courier-imap should be started using
>tcpserver
> > and auth_imap. The /service directly isn't specifically mentioned, but
>the
> > sentence "Your run file will look like this:" leads me to believe the
>run
> > script should be in a directory that will be linked to /service.
>
>yes.
>
> > 5) It is not clear to me whether it is recommended to add courier-imap
>to
> > the qmailctl script or if the qmail-conf method is required or
>preferred.
>
>Neither qmail-conf nor qmailctl are needed at all. qmail-conf just makes
>life easier - you don't have to write your run scripts by hand for the
>standard services. For courier you will have to do this.
>
>--
>* Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.bsws.de *
>* Roedingsmarkt 14, 20459 Hamburg, Germany *
>Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity.
>(Dennis Ritchie)
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