Qmail install success on 1.4; possible package bug?

Tim Darby t-df at timdarby.net
Sun Jan 8 20:18:37 PST 2006


I got Qmail up and running today on 1.4 and it looks good.  Coming from 
OpenBSD and having never done anything with FreeBSD or DragonFly before, 
it took me quite a while to figure out where everything was, but I did 
it.  I have to give a hearty thanks to the people who put the DragonFly 
handbook together; I'd have been really stuck without it.  From the 
OpenBSD perspective, I do miss having lynx and sudo as part of the base 
install.

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:

exec /bin/csh -cf '/usr/pkg/bin/svscan /var/spool/service &'

Good work on 1.4 btw!

Tim





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