Just updated to 5.3-BETA7 -couple nits

Kenneth Culver culverk at sweetdreamsracing.biz
Tue Oct 5 10:11:33 PDT 2004


Quoting Kim Culhan <w8hdkim at yahoo.com>:

> --- Ruslan Ermilov <ru at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 06:33:20AM -0700, Kim Culhan wrote:
>> > > >From the couple small nits dept..
>> > > After running mergemaster and rebooting, the boot hung with:
>> > > /etc/defaults/rc.conf: 517: Syntax error: EOF in backquote
>> > substitution
>> > > rc.conf had only 516 lines soo.. was there an embedded
>> > EOF char in the file not visible with vi ?
>> > > Installed a previous rc.conf, including the diffs from
>> > the beta7 rc.conf: rc.conf,v 1.212.2.2 and all is well.
>> > Maybe mergemaster(8) did something bad for you, but it's
>> really hard to say without having a look at problematic
>> /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
>
> Ok, the problematic rc.conf is attached as rc.conf.new
>
>> > There is no startup script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d nor
>> > anything in /etc/rc.conf to start postfix, or anything
>> > in /etc/rc.local soo.. how can it start ?
>> > See mailer.conf(5).
>
> There is nothing in mailer.conf(5) regarding the startup of
> [your favorite] mail server on boot that I can see..
>
> This is with sources cvsup'd 10-4-04 at ~1600 utc
>
> tnx
> -kim
>
I just did ln -s /usr/local/sbin/postfix /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postfix.sh

and it starts up on boot just fine now.

Ken


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