[Mimedefang] starting on freebsd 5.2.1

[Wesley Peters]

On Tuesday, March 09, 2004 8:54 AM, Royce Williams <mailto:royce.williams at acsalaska.net> alleged:

> J.D. Bronson wrote:
> 
>> I was wondering (yet another newbie question here) how people
>> started mimedefang on freebsd 5.2.x ?
> 
> The new rc stuff -- dubbed "rcNG" -- is supposed to allow you
> to control
> start order.  "man rc.subr" and "man rcorder" on a recent 5.x
> box.  You
> can use keywords like "REQUIRE" and "BEFORE" to dictate the logical
> ordering that you want.  It requires a little work to get it going, but
> more and more of the ports are switching over to using this method.
> 
> -royce

The ports/local startup directory hasn't been integrated into the
new rcorder system (yet).  The local startups are run by 
/etc/rc.d/localpkg, which happens after sendmail in the default 
ordering.  You can easily change this by editing /etc/rc.d/sendmail 
and change the

	# REQUIRE: LOGIN

to read:

	# REQUIRE: LOGIN localpkg

This will run sendmail after *everything* in /usr/local/etc/rc.d, 
which is probably OK.  You can verify the order with the same 
command used in /etc/rc to start the subsystems:

	# rcorder -k FreeBSD -s nostart /etc/rc.d/* 2>/dev/null

The original ordering shows, near the bottom of the list:

	...
	/etc/rc.d/sshd
	/etc/rc.d/sendmail
	/etc/rc.d/archdep
	/etc/rc.d/abi
	/etc/rc.d/cron
	/etc/rc.d/devfs
	/etc/rc.d/jail
	/etc/rc.d/localpkg
	/etc/rc.d/netoptions
	...

The above edit pushes sendmail to immediately after localpkg:

	...
	/etc/rc.d/archdep
	/etc/rc.d/abi
	/etc/rc.d/localpkg
	/etc/rc.d/sendmail
	/etc/rc.d/cron
	...

The local and X11 rc.d directories will be integrated into the 
rcorder system as soon as a majority of the really common server
ports have been fixed to include the PROVIDE and REQUIRE comments
in the rc scripts, or as soon as someone comes up with a clever
way to note all the scripts that don't show up in rcorder and
arrange to run them as well.  Help is always appreciated.  ;^)

	Wes, aka wes at freebsd.org

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Wes Peters <wpeters at stbernard.com>
Sr. Software Engineer, St. Bernard Software