Re: flexfax: SysV configuration patch

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, John Williams wrote:

> Not only that, but HP-UX runs the S* scripts for each level in order
> [1..n] when bringing the system up, and runs the K* scripts for each level
> in reverse order [n-1..0] to shut down.  Which forces each level to be a
> superset of the previous one.  (I don't think any other unixes do this.) 
> The proper places are probably /sbin/rc4.d/S905hylafax and
> /sbin/rc3.d/K095hylafax.  That's not a typo; they go in different
> directories.

This is not so bad: It means that the locations need to be configured
differently for different operating systems. This is what we get for
supporting so many different operating systems!!!

> Furthermore, HP-UX invokes the script as "S905hylafax start_msg" and
> "K095hylafax stop_msg" expecting it to output strings which should be
> displayed on its startup and shutdown screens.  For example:

The S905 and K095 is OK.

> case $1 in
> start_msg)
>         echo "Start hylafax server"
>         ;;
> stop_msg)
>         echo "Stop hylafax server"
>         ;;
> start)
> 	# start the daemons...
> 	;;
> stop)
> 	# stop the daemons...
> 	;;

**THIS** is new to me, at least. This takes re-writing of the
"hylafax.in" script source. Is HP married to the "start_msg" rather
than the "start" flag?

> p.s. hylafax runs as a client only on my HPs because their serial ports
> suck too.

Ahh. So can we pitch HP as a server altogether? Or should we try to include
that?

			Nico Kadel-Garcia
			Senior Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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