starting pkgsrc services on 1.4

[joerg at britannica.bec.de]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 11:54:58AM -0800, Cheese Lottery wrote:
> 
> It seems that in order to use pkgsrc's rc.d scripts, I do not set
> <name>_enable as with the base system scripts, I just set <name>. Am I
> right?

Yes

> Also, what is the recommended way to ensure that the pkgsrc rc.d
> scripts are run on start up? Right now, I have set PKG_RCD_SCRIPTS=YES
> in my mk.conf, which copies pkgsrc's rc.d scripts to /etc/rc.d.

This is one of the options. I normally link them manually, since I want
to know whatI want to run.

> P.S. A nitpick about pkgsrc/mail/postfix. The included rc.d script
> attempts to copy files from /etc to /var/spool/postfix/etc. This fails
> because /var/spool/postfix/etc is not created when the package is
> installed.

I know, I complained more than once about it :-) I'm going to fix it
myself...

Joerg