> I installed "qmail", an alternative to sendmail, on my system by hand, > because there is no Debian package yet. So I created a script 'qmail' > that starts qmail, if you give it the argument 'start' and stops it if > you give the argument 'stop'. I placed the script in /etc/init.d. I > want qmail to start when I enter runlevel 2, so I had to create a link > in /etc/rc2.d to the script 'qmail': > > ln -s /etc/init.d/qmail /etc/rc2.d/S19qmail > > The 'S' means start qmail, the 19 makes it run between S18netbase and > S20xinetd. I also deleted the link, '/etc/rc2.d/S20sendmail' because > I didn't want sendmail to start. (But I still have the script in > /etc/init.d, in case I ever want to use it again.) > > Finally, I created a link > > ln -s /etc/init.d/qmail /etc/rc6.d/K19qmail > > so that qmail is killed when I reboot (runlevel 6 is reboot).
Isn't the recommended way of installing scripts in /etc/rc?.d to use the Debian command update-rc.d? E.- -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9430323 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]