Re: Qmail install success on 1.4; possible package bug?

[Amitai Schlair <schmonz@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim Darby wrote:

> Thanks, I got sidetracked with another project and just now getting back 
> to Qmail on DFly.  It appears that root, which is what this runs under, 
> already has those directories in its path, so I don't think that's the 
> issue.  I'm not very up on RC scripts but I found that the following 
> modification to the svscan.sh that came with the package worked:
>
> From:
> exec /bin/csh -cf '/usr/pkg/bin/svscan /var/spool/service &'
>
> exec env PATH=/usr/pkg/bin:$PATH /bin/csh -cf '/usr/pkg/bin/svscan 
> /var/spool/service &'
>
> If this is not the best way to do fix this, I'd like to know, especially 
> if there's a preferred DFly way of doing it.

A pkgsrc developer brought your message to my attention. I maintain the 
djbware in pkgsrc and would like to help.

How are you installing qmail? There's a fairly good package (if I do say 
so myself :-) in pkgsrc/mail/qmail that I've been happily using for years.

Does DragonFly have a NetBSD-derived /etc/rc.d subsystem? If so, I 
highly recommend not using svscan and /service to run qmail. Instead, 
try pkgsrc/mail/qmail-run, which makes qmail feel like an ordinary 
BSD-style daemon, complete with rc.d scripts, knobs in /etc/rc.conf, 
etc. Interesting a scheme though /service is, I can't imagine going back 
to it.

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- Amitai