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

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

The following reply was made to PR pkg/36192; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost, 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 12:20:46 -0400

 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