[Mimedefang] Re: init-script[204]: syntax error: `(' unexpected

[Jeremy Mates]

* RC <rubbishcollector at yahoo.com>
> On Thu Jul 17 16:01, RC wrote:
> > When stopping MIMEDefang 2.35 on OpenBSD 3.0 with
> the
> > example init-script, following error occurs:
> > ./init-script[204]: syntax error: `(' unexpected
> 
> Workaround - use bash:
> -#!/bin/sh
> +#!/bin/bash

That would be /usr/local/bin/bash on OpenBSD, assuming the bash port has
been installed.

OpenBSD's /bin/sh appears to be objecting to the functions named start
and stop; one fix is to rename the said functions.

--- examples/init-script.in.orig	Wed Jul  2 09:35:11 2003
+++ examples/init-script.in	Tue Jul 22 09:24:28 2003
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@
 SOCKET=${SOCKET:=$SPOOLDIR/$prog.sock}
 MX_SOCKET=${MX_SOCKET:=$SPOOLDIR/$prog-multiplexor.sock}
 
-start() {
+start_daemon() {
     if test -r $PID ; then
 	if kill -0 `cat $PID` > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
 	    echo "mimedefang (`cat $PID`) seems to be running."
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@
     return 0
 }
 
-stop() {
+stop_daemon() {
     # Stop daemon
     printf "%-60s" "Shutting down $prog: "
     if test -f "$PID" ; then
@@ -240,16 +240,16 @@
 # See how we were called.
 case "$1" in
   start)
-  start
+  start_daemon
     ;;
 
   stop)
-  stop
+  stop_daemon
     ;;
 
   restart)
-    stop
-    start
+    stop_daemon
+    start_daemon
     RETVAL=$?
     ;;