[Mailman-Users] starting Mailman 2.1a2
Barry A. Warsaw
barry at zope.com
Wed Jul 25 06:44:31 CEST 2001
>>>>> "JDB" == J D Bronson <lists at xpec.com> writes:
| I wrote a simple script for Solaris to start mailmain under
| /etc/rc2.d/S99mailman
JDB> Simply put:
JDB> (snip)
JDB> case "$1" in
| start)
| echo "Starting Mailman"
| /usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl start
| ;;
| (snip)
>>>>> "AMK" == Ashley M Kirchner <ashley at pcraft.com> writes:
AMK> Generally, you create a script under /etc/init.d called
AMK> 'mailman' and you soft link it to the run level:
AMK> [ note: the latter one needs to have a 'stop' clause in the
AMK> script ]
>>>>> "JDB" == J D Bronson <lists at xpec.com> writes:
JDB> From the looks of this 'mailmanctl' - it starts and stops
JDB> just like 'apachectl' from apache web server.
I definitely had apachectl in mind when I wrote mailmanctl (hence the
similar name :). Your init.d script, with a suitable `stop' clause is
exactly what I had in mind, along with documentation giving Ashley's
recommendation.
-Barry
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