On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Mark Thomas wrote: > I Have a couple of questions about the qmail install. What I have doesn't > look right to me. > > I). I am installing qmail 1.03 from Dave Sill's "Life with Qmail" dated July > 21, 1999. I am in section # 2.8.2 System Startup Files, and it says to > install a script file I just created "qmail" to launch qmail at boot into my > init.d directory. > The document says it should be in one of the following locations: > /etc/init.d > /etc/rc.d/init.d > /sbin/init.d > I have no such directory on my system. (Slackware 3.6) > It appears that Slackware uses /etc/rc.d for the initialization files. I > think the qmail script file that will start qmail on boot should be located > here? Can anyone verify this for me? Slackware doesn't use the System V-style init scripts that this documentation refers to. Slackware uses old-style /etc/rc.d scripts. What this probably means is that you need to stick your qmail start/stop script somewhere else, then manually edit by hand the various scripts in /etc/rc.d to run the qmail start/stop script. Going from memory, /etc/rc.d/rc.local would be a good place to stick in the start script. I think /etc/rc.d/rc.shutdown would be a good place to stick in the stop script, to bring the system down during system shutdown. In any case, you should read the contents of your /etc/inittab to see which /etc/rc.d scripts get invoked at which time. Then make appropriate changes.
