Qmail install success on 1.4; possible package bug?

joerg at britannica.bec.de joerg at britannica.bec.de
Wed Jan 11 05:40:49 PST 2006


On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 09:12:38PM -0700, Tim Darby wrote:
> Anyway, I think I've either found a package bug or it's just me being 
> clueless, probably the latter. As part of the Qmail install, I installed 
> the package daemontools-0.76.  After I setup the service folders and 
> rebooted, I got boot errors from svscan telling me that it couldn't 
> start the 'supervise' processes.  After some poking around, I think the 
> problem is that the supervise program is installed by the package in 
> /usr/pkg/bin, however that folder is not in the path of the shell 
> command that the included /usr/local/etc/rc.d/svscan.sh script runs. 
> When I copied supervise to /usr/sbin and rebooted, it worked fine. 
> Here's the only command that the svscan.sh script runs:

Please fill a NetBSD/pkgsrc PR against either daemontools or qmail,
whatever is more appropiate. RC scripts and related things MUST NOT
depend on PATH.

Joerg





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