Where are the startup scripts?

Luke Kearney lukek at meibin.net
Wed Jan 28 22:22:22 PST 2004


On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 20:54:41 -0700 (MST)
"KURT BUFF" <kurtbuff at spro.net> granted us these pearls of wisdom:

> Bit of a newb question here:
> 
> I've got a pretty standard install of postfix, and am trying to follow the
> directions in this web page:
> 
> http://advosys.ca/papers/postfix-instance.html
> 
> Everything is pretty crystalline until I get to the line that says:
> 
> "To create a startup script for the second instance, either edit your
> existing Postfix startup script and add the above command (postfix -c
> /etc/postfix-out start) after the existing postfix start command, or copy
> the existing startup script to a new name and change the copy."
> 
> The author goes on with examples from Redhat and Debian, but I am not sure
> where to place the above command.
> 
> I'm leaning toward putting it in /etc/rc.conf, but that just doesn't quite
> feel right. Nor does just sticking the line in /etc/rc.
> 
> Help much appreciated.
> 
> Kurt

I would be inclined to examine /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ and stuff something
in there or in rc.local  

See how you go with those two for starters.

HTH

LukeK



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