Subject: Re: /usr/pkgsrc/mail/nullmailer
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Iain Hibbert <plunky@rya-online.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/26/2007 19:36:44
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Johnny C. Lam wrote:

> This patch is fine, however...
>
> > I'm not sure if there is a better way to make a fifo, or if there is a
> > different target that it could be made at (pre-post-install ? :)
>
> If nullmailer runs as a daemon and has an rc.d script, I would create the fifo
> in the rc.d script as a start_precmd.  Just substitute the hard-coded path of
> the trigger compiled into the nullmailer binary into the rc.d script.

Hm, yeah - I thought about that but then it means you cannot run
nullmailer except through the rc.d script which could be a problem on
platform that does not use them (I guess?)

iain