serving pop3
Robert Locke
rlocke at ralii.com
Tue Jul 20 23:47:07 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 17:51, Alan Hill wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:38:48 -0500, Jeff Vian <jvian10 at charter.net> wrote:
> > than call the init script to manage the services. And I KNOW that
> > /etc/init.d/sendmail does not call a make command itself.
>
> Hi Jeff,
>
> I have a standard install of FC2. I'm not sure if
> /etc/init.d/sendmail is the same in FC1. When I look at
> /etc/init.d/sendmail I see the following bit of code in the reload()
> subroutine:
>
> if [ -x /usr/bin/make -a -f /etc/mail/Makefile ]; then
> make all -C /etc/mail -s
> else
> for i in virtusertable access domaintable mailertable ; do
> if [ -f /etc/mail/$i ] ; then
> makemap hash /etc/mail/$i < /etc/mail/$i
> fi
> done
> fi
>
> As far as I understand it, that ought to do exactly what Mike claimed,
> and run 'make all -C /etc/mail -s' everytime you start or restart the
> service via the init script.
>
Actually, it is also in the start() routine under FC2. Likewise, while
I cannot personally verify that the code exists in FC1, I have just
checked and the code also resides in RHEL3 so I think it is safe to
assume that it is in FC1....
--Rob
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