Jay Kline writes:
> The default install puts things in inittab. I would consider that
> unusual. Again, not bad, but different. Of course you can change
> things, but that is not the default.
Where do you get that from? This is step 14 from the qmail-1.03 INSTALL
file:
14. Add
csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc &'
to your boot scripts, so that the qmail daemons are restarted
whenever your system reboots. Make sure you include the &.
I've never seen any qmail instructions that say anything about inittab.
> When I see that a product (any product, for that matter) has not had
> any active development since 1998, I take that to mean either the
> author no longer cares anymore, or the author assumes the product is
> perfect and requires no updates. I would think its a little self
> centered of anyone to think they can write perfect software.
I agree with you there for the most part. If you look on freshmeat or
SourceForge, many projects are half-finished and have been abandoned for
years. This is certainly not the case with qmail.
``In protocol design, perfection has been reached not when there is nothing
left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.'' -- RFC 1925
The same thing could be said for software. qmail works for millions of
people. There is no need to update it.
--
David Phillips <david at acz.org>
http://david.acz.org/
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