On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 03:06:20PM +0100, Nicolas Kratz wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 10:56:17AM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > > Andreas Metzler wrote: > > > I kind of doubt that it is feasible writing an init-script that works > > > for all MTAs. Take a look at the init-scripts for sendmail and exim4. > > I think the key element is that the ?dm init-scripts check whether or not they > > are the default and base the decision if they start anything or not on that. > > Assuming that the daemons all provide /usr/sbin/sendmail, one could use the > > alternative for /usr/bin/sendmail to check. > > Following the Principle of Least Astonishment, the alternatives system > should not be used to make decisions on what daemons to start. I can > also see corner cases where one MTA is supposed to start at boot, but > another one has to provide the sendmail functionality. > > A file /etc/default-mail-transport-agent (or /etc/default-mta for short) > could be created, similar to /etc/X11/default-display-manager, and used > in exactly the same way. I was thinking along this. /etc/default/ is used by the many init scripts to put sourced parameters. So it should be /etc/default/default-mta -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ +++++ Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> Cupertino CA USA, GPG-key: A8061F32 .''`. Debian Reference: post-installation user's guide for non-developers : :' : http://qref.sf.net and http://people.debian.org/~osamu `. `' "Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software" --- Social Contract
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