Subject: Re: pkg/36192: sysutils/apcupsd has a bad rc.d file
To: None <pkg-manager@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: pkgsrc-bugs
Date: 04/22/2007 16:25:02
The following reply was made to PR pkg/36192; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: bouyer@antioche.eu.org, pkg-manager@NetBSD.org,
	gnats-admin@NetBSD.org, pkgsrc-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: pkg/36192: sysutils/apcupsd has a bad rc.d file
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 12:20:46 -0400

 On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:00:05 +0000 (UTC)
 Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> wrote:
 
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/36192; it has been noted by
 > GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
 > To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
 > Cc: pkg-manager@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
 > 	pkgsrc-bugs@NetBSD.org
 > Subject: Re: pkg/36192: sysutils/apcupsd has a bad rc.d file
 > Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:57:21 +0200
 > 
 >  On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 02:20:01PM +0000, smb@cs.columbia.edu wrote:
 >  > 	The sample rc.d file isn't right for the NetBSD rc.d
 >  > system.
 >  
 >  What do you mean here ? the provided script works fine for me.
 >  
 It will generally work, but because it doesn't use the rc.d framework
 some things don't work.  You can't control it with an rc.conf variable,
 it doesn't honor forcestart/forcestop, there's no sequencing, etc.
 
 
 
 		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb