Re: pkg/36192: sysutils/apcupsd has a bad rc.d file

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:00:05 +0000 (UTC)
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:

> The following reply was made to PR pkg/36192; it has been noted by
> GNATS.
> 
> From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
> To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
> Cc: pkg-manager%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost,
>       pkgsrc-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
> Subject: Re: pkg/36192: sysutils/apcupsd has a bad rc.d file
> Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:57:21 +0200
> 
>  On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 02:20:01PM +0000, smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost 
> wrote:
>  >    The sample rc.d file isn't right for the NetBSD rc.d
>  > system.
>  
>  What do you mean here ? the provided script works fine for me.
>  
It will generally work, but because it doesn't use the rc.d framework
some things don't work.  You can't control it with an rc.conf variable,
it doesn't honor forcestart/forcestop, there's no sequencing, etc.



                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb