_<service> users [Was: startup error for pflogd]

Doug White dwhite at gumbysoft.com
Thu Jun 24 03:20:03 GMT 2004


On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Max Laier wrote:

> > I think its quite doable for 6.x; this gives ports a chance to get on
> > board without having a huge rush before 5.3 hits the street.
>
> I completely agree with you here. My question is, what should I do with
> pflogd? I don't see much point in creating user pflogd now, patching pflogd
> to use it and revert everything back for 6-current. So will it be much of a
> problem to add _pflogd now eventhough the rest of the daemons is not yet
> converted?

Well, everything else is going to have to get patched too, so pflogd will
just ride the megacommit. :-)

How many places is the username referenced in the code? I wouldn't think
it would pop up more than a couple of times.

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