creating a sysv script

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 08:46 -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 02:51, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
> > 
> > It appears from this that your milter-greylist properly daemonizes
> > itself (i.e. it detaches itself from the terminal), unlike the milter
> > Craig is trying to use. So I expect this script won't work for him.
> > 
> > It might actually be easier to patch the (perl) milter to do this, in
> > much the same way as the SPF milter does at
> > http://spf.pobox.com/sendmail-milter-spf-1.41.pl
> > 
> > (the relevant code is near the bottom of the file)
> 
> I originally suggested that he take a look at the milter-greylist
> package to see how it daemonizes the process.  
> 
> Or alternatively use milter-greylist as I think that is the
> functionality he is trying to add to the system.
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I must have missed your suggestion about looking at milter-greylist
package - sometimes can't see the forest for the trees.

Thanks for you help - I'm heading down that path now that I see the
light.

I'll follow up over the weekend

Craig