Qmail install success on 1.4; possible package bug?

[Amitai Schlair]

Tim Darby wrote:

Thanks, I got sidetracked with another project and just now getting back 
to Qmail on DFly.  It appears that root, which is what this runs under, 
already has those directories in its path, so I don't think that's the 
issue.  I'm not very up on RC scripts but I found that the following 
modification to the svscan.sh that came with the package worked:

From:
exec /bin/csh -cf '/usr/pkg/bin/svscan /var/spool/service &'
exec env PATH=/usr/pkg/bin:$PATH /bin/csh -cf '/usr/pkg/bin/svscan 
/var/spool/service &'

If this is not the best way to do fix this, I'd like to know, especially 
if there's a preferred DFly way of doing it.
A pkgsrc developer brought your message to my attention. I maintain the 
djbware in pkgsrc and would like to help.

How are you installing qmail? There's a fairly good package (if I do say 
so myself :-) in pkgsrc/mail/qmail that I've been happily using for years.

Does DragonFly have a NetBSD-derived /etc/rc.d subsystem? If so, I 
highly recommend not using svscan and /service to run qmail. Instead, 
try pkgsrc/mail/qmail-run, which makes qmail feel like an ordinary 
BSD-style daemon, complete with rc.d scripts, knobs in /etc/rc.conf, 
etc. Interesting a scheme though /service is, I can't imagine going back 
to it.

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- Amitai