Subject: pkg/18928: /etc/rc.d/spamd can never start at boot
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <fcusack@fcusack.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 11/04/2002 10:08:19
>Number: 18928
>Category: pkg
>Synopsis: /etc/rc.d/spamd can never start at boot
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: pkg-manager
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Mon Nov 04 10:09:01 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Frank Cusack
>Release: NetBSD 1.6
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD moltar.savecore.net 1.6 NetBSD 1.6 (moltar) #6: Mon Oct 7 01:03:19 PDT 2002 root@moltar.savecore.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc64/compile/moltar sparc64
Architecture: sparc64
Machine: sparc64
>Description:
[ package SpamAssassin ]
/etc/rc.d/spamd sets defaults for $spamd and $spamd_flags, and
claims (in a comment) that these can be overridden in /etc/rc.conf.
However, they cannot. load_rc_config(), at the bottom of the
script, does NOT re-load rc.conf at boot time, because
$_rc_conf_loaded is already set. The effect is that the values
in the spamd script are always the values used. Probably not
caught because when run by hand, $_rc_conf_loaded is not set,
and so the script appears to work.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Two options:
1) move the spamd default settings to /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
2) unset $_rc_conf_loaded before calling load_rc_config().
The first option seems better.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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