FreeBSD Port: howl-0.9.10

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 00:52 -0500, Joe Auty wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm not sure if Howl is used with other packages, but certainly I would 
> assume that a common use of howl is in conjunction with the daapd port?

Actually, I use it as a standalone mDNSResponder, with gnome-vfs using
it to learn about network services.  I'm never used daapd.

> 
> Slight problem: the daapd daemon installed from the port runs as user 
> "daapd", and the mdnsresponder.sh script included with Howl runs as 
> root. Consequently, the two can't communicate with each and I'm forced 
> to use a home-grown rc script.
> 
> Is there anyway this port can be updated to generate a good rc script? 
> Maybe a build menu option? It's a bit of a pain to have to mess around 
> with the rc script to get it to work with daapd everytime I 
> reinstall/upgrade, etc.

So what would you have me do?

Joe

-- 
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team      ::      gnome at FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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