MIMEDefang not starting on reboot

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 07/07/2010, at 12:12, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>> --- /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mimedefang.sh-dist      2010-04-07 10:30:46.586067014 +0930
>> +++ /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mimedefang.sh   2010-05-01 13:47:47.340517685 +0930
>> @@ -316,7 +319,7 @@
>>   rm -f $MX_SOCKET > /dev/null 2>&1
>>   rm -f $SOCKET > /dev/null 2>&1
>> 
>> -    if [ "$1" = "wait" ] ; then
>> +    if [ "wait" = "wait" ] ; then
>>      printf "Waiting for daemons to exit."
>>      WAITPID=""
>>      test -f $PID && WAITPID=`cat $PID`
>> 
>> Otherwise restart is useless because it starts MD without waiting for the old one to stop and it doesn't work :(
> 
> This should probably go to freebsd-ports not -stable, since both
> mimedefang and perl are ports things.  CC'ing.

True.

> Also, that patch doesn't look correct, or you got your diff arguments
> backwards (e.g. change should be fixing the wait=wait comparison to
> use $1=wait).

No, really, I want it to always succeed.

The optional wait appears to be a Linux thing, however rc.d scripts on FreeBSD [should] always wait for their daemons to exit, otherwise restart will try and start it before it has exited.

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