On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 16:28 -0600, micheal wrote: > On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 08:47 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 08:46 -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote: > > > On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 02:51, Paul Howarth wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > It appears from this that your milter-greylist properly daemonizes > > > > itself (i.e. it detaches itself from the terminal), unlike the milter > > > > Craig is trying to use. So I expect this script won't work for him. > > > > > > > > It might actually be easier to patch the (perl) milter to do this, in > > > > much the same way as the SPF milter does at > > > > http://spf.pobox.com/sendmail-milter-spf-1.41.pl > > > > > > > > (the relevant code is near the bottom of the file) > > > > > > I originally suggested that he take a look at the milter-greylist > > > package to see how it daemonizes the process. > > > > > > Or alternatively use milter-greylist as I think that is the > > > functionality he is trying to add to the system. > > ---- > > I must have missed your suggestion about looking at milter-greylist > > package - sometimes can't see the forest for the trees. > > > > Thanks for you help - I'm heading down that path now that I see the > > light. > > > > I'll follow up over the weekend > > > > Craig > > > > > Just a question, Would calling the milter script from /etc/inittab be a > viable solution? ---- not in my book when there is a provided method in the initscripts for sysV - heck, I could just as easily start it up in rc.local. Craig
