ports/82423: [PATCH] security/amavisd-new: several improvements

[Dominic Marks]

On Friday 15 July 2005 20:07, Scot Hetzel wrote:
> On 7/14/05, Dominic Marks <dom at goodforbusiness.co.uk> wrote:
> > Why is the rc.d script now being installed into /etc/rc.d/amavisd ?
> >
> > I am referring to this section of the Makefile:
> >
> > .if ${OSVERSION} >= 500037
> > USE_RCORDER=    amavisd.sh
> > RC_DIR=         /etc/rc.d
> > RC_SUFX=
> > .else
> > USE_RC_SUBR+=   amavisd.sh
> > RC_DIR=         ${PREFIX}/etc/rc.d
> > RC_SUFX=        .sh
> > .endif
> >
> > Has their been some sort of policy change? Why is amavisd-new
> > doing this when no other ports (that I know of anyway) are? This
> > seems wrong to me.
> >
> > If there is a good reason for it, I'd be happy to hear it.
>
> I beleive the port maintainers reason for this is so that sendmail
> won't complain that it can't talk to the amavisd milter dameon upon
> startup.
>
> Placing the startup script in to /etc/rc.d ensures that amavisd
> starts before sendmail starts.
>
> Scot

I see. Perhaps I am being pedantic here, but it would be nice
if this behaviour was skipped for those of us who don't use
sendmail.

Of course, it is the port maintainer's decision...

Thanks for the explaination Scot!

-- 
Dominic Marks