Re: [Fink-devel] Can I modify outside /sw?

2003-01-11 Thread Joe Block
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, Jan 10, 2003, at 14:47 US/Eastern, Finlay Dobbie wrote: On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 03:17 pm, Jared wrote: What does Fink's daemonic package do? I'm not familiar with it. Last i checked, it managed a load of startupitem bundles

Re: [Fink-devel] Can I modify outside /sw?

2003-01-10 Thread Finlay Dobbie
On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 08:17 pm, Max Horn wrote: Last i checked, it managed a load of startupitem bundles in /Library/StartupItems (can you say, ick?). I can say it, but I don't know why you would say it, how about elaborating? Mixing daemonic-managed startup items with non-daemoni

Re: [Fink-devel] Can I modify outside /sw?

2003-01-10 Thread Ben Hines
On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 01:01 PM, Jason Deraleau wrote: Now, if we could just figure out why Apple didn't remove the inetd line from /System/Library/IPServices/IPServices... Because, as i said, inetd is OBSOLETE. xinetd is its replacement. -Ben --

Re: [Fink-devel] Can I modify outside /sw?

2003-01-10 Thread Justin Hallett
tha tis it, looks very familiar :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Now, if we could just figure out why Apple didn't remove the inetd line >from /System/Library/IPServices/IPServices... -=[JFH] Justin F. Hallett -=[JFH] Rendek Communications Inc. -=[JFH] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: [Fink-devel] Can I modify outside /sw?

2003-01-10 Thread Justin Hallett
as max noted I'm working on adding xinetd support to daemonic. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >I'm curious, perhaps Fink could standardize a location in the /sw/etc >directory, perhaps /sw/etc/xinetd.d and then just add a line to >/etc/xinetd.conf that says IncludeDir /sw/etc/xinetd.d? This would >a

Re: [Fink-devel] Can I modify outside /sw?

2003-01-10 Thread Jason Deraleau
or create a startup item for xinetd, it seems to me I remember having to do this to test proftpd with xinetd. -=[JFH] Justin F. Hallett xinetd is started by /System/Library/StartupItems/IPServices/IPServices. As long as it has an active service it will load at boot. inetd loads as well, but

Re: [Fink-devel] Can I modify outside /sw?

2003-01-10 Thread Jason Deraleau
On my machine, inetd is running rather thatn xinetd. So are you sure that this would actually work? Because you have no services for it. It checks at boot time. (see your console.log) inetd is obsolete, xinetd comes with Jaguar and is preferred (though startup items are more preferred) The

Re: [Fink-devel] Can I modify outside /sw?

2003-01-10 Thread Justin Hallett
or create a startup item for xinetd, it seems to me I remember having to do this to test proftpd with xinetd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >What do you mean by "startup items are more preferred"? Should I >somehow create a startup item for hotway instead of using xinetd and if >so, how would I do t

Re: [Fink-devel] Can I modify outside /sw?

2003-01-10 Thread Jared
What do you mean by "startup items are more preferred"? Should I somehow create a startup item for hotway instead of using xinetd and if so, how would I do that? It would need to be a daemon running all the time then, yeah? The instructions from the creators of hotway use the inetd/xinetd metho

Re: [Fink-devel] Can I modify outside /sw?

2003-01-10 Thread Ben Hines
On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 06:59 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: On my machine, inetd is running rather thatn xinetd. So are you sure that this would actually work? Because you have no services for it. It checks at boot time. (see your console.log) inetd is obsolete, xinetd comes with

Re: [Fink-devel] Can I modify outside /sw?

2003-01-10 Thread Max Horn
At 19:47 Uhr + 10.01.2003, Finlay Dobbie wrote: On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 03:17 pm, Jared wrote: What does Fink's daemonic package do? I'm not familiar with it. Last i checked, it managed a load of startupitem bundles in /Library/StartupItems (can you say, ick?). I can say it, but

Re: [Fink-devel] Can I modify outside /sw?

2003-01-10 Thread Finlay Dobbie
On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 03:17 pm, Jared wrote: What does Fink's daemonic package do? I'm not familiar with it. Last i checked, it managed a load of startupitem bundles in /Library/StartupItems (can you say, ick?). -- Finlay ---

Re: [Fink-devel] Can I modify outside /sw?

2003-01-10 Thread Jared
On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 08:59 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: Jared <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi. I have a package which currently creates a file outside /sw. It adds a file to /etc/xinetd.d/ so your computer acts as a POP3 server so you can get Hotmail in any e-mail client. The person

Re: [Fink-devel] Can I modify outside /sw?

2003-01-10 Thread David R. Morrison
Jared <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. I have a package which currently creates a file outside /sw. It > adds a file to /etc/xinetd.d/ so your computer acts as a POP3 server so > you can get Hotmail in any e-mail client. The person who is looking > over my package isn't sure about my modifyi

Re: [Fink-devel] Can I modify outside /sw?

2003-01-10 Thread Christian Schaffner
On Freitag, Januar 10, 2003, at 02:29 Uhr, Jared wrote: On an unrelated note (because I don't want to join another mailing list to ask this), I got an error while installing gimp (fink install gimp). I am using Apple's X11 so with the many choices at the beginning of installation, I chose to

[Fink-devel] Can I modify outside /sw?

2003-01-10 Thread Jared
Hi. I have a package which currently creates a file outside /sw. It adds a file to /etc/xinetd.d/ so your computer acts as a POP3 server so you can get Hotmail in any e-mail client. The person who is looking over my package isn't sure about my modifying outside /sw but in an effort to keep