First, let me say thanks to Dave for _Life with qmail_!
But (oh, here comes the good part :-):, though your
startup script works, I have a hard time imagining that
DJB who said "svscan is designed to run forever" intended
for it to have to be killed to stop qmail. Of course,
I have less experience than others on this list, so maybe
I'm just missing something.
It occurs to me that another problem is that one might want
cycle qmail-smtpd and qmail-pop3d (in my case, at least)
independently, while leaving qmail proper up.
Of course, I can write my own scripts, but I thought that,
since he writes such great code, DJB might have had some
particular scheme in mind for using daemontools and qmail
together.
I know I could forgo the use of svscan, and just use supervise,
but having the pipe automagically created between a service and
its logger is just *too* convenient!
grier
