Re: Bug#412976 repoened - reassign tech-ctte (mixmaster /etc/default/*)

[Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>]

* Fri 2007-11-30 Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> INBOX
> Peter Palfrader writes ("Re: Bug#412976 repoened - reassign tech-ctte (mixmaster /etc/default/*)"):
>
>> Summary of current status:
>> 
>> o The mixmaster package provides both the client and server functionality.
>> o By default the server part (running a remailer) is not enabled.
>> o To configure mixmaster to run as a remailer the admin has to set a dozen
>>   options in /etc/mixmaster/remailer.conf.  Options like email address,
>>   which formats they will accept, whether to run as an exit or only as a
>>   middleman remailer, etc.
>> o One of those options is the REMAIL setting, which enables or disables
>>   the remailing ("server") part of mixmaster.
>> o The init script has code to only try starting the mixmaster daemon, which
>>   is only needed when it's being run as a remailer, when the REMAIL option
>>   is actually set to "y" in that config file.
>> 
>> The submitter wants a new conffile, /etc/default/mixmaster, that is
>> sourced by the init script to control whether the daemon is started.
>> That would either be in addition or instead of the REMAIL setting in
>> /etc/mixmaster/remailer.conf which is already used by the mixmaster
>> software.
>
> Jari, do you agree with Peter Palfrader's summary above ?  If not, in
> what way is it not accurate, or which important facts does it leave
> out ?

While I would have found it more beneficial to move towards separate
stages:

    /etc/default/*              Daemon boot control setup
    /etc/<daemon>/<configs>     Daemon run time configuration

I'm fine with the result.

>From Admin's point of view dealing with symlinks is much more
uncomfortable to control the initial start/stop status.

Jari