[svlug] Writing start-up scripts...

[Eric Pretorious]

Hello!

I've been trying to start qmail using a hacked version of the 
/etc/init.d/httpd script from Redhat 7 but the script - /etc/init.d/smtp - 
just hangs after echo'ing the message "Starting qmail: ". (Executing the 
start-up script directly, `csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc'`, works just fine, 
though.) I'm not familiar with shell scripting - could the error be caused 
because /var/qmail/rc doesn't return a value to `RETVAL=$?` ? 
(/etc/init.d/smtp stop works just great!)

Thanks in advance!
Eric P.
Los Gatos, CA

/var/qmail/rc
=============
#!/bin/sh
exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \
qmail-start ./Mailbox splogger qmail


/etc/init.d/smtp:
================
#!/bin/sh
#
# Startup script for the qmail mail transfer agent (MTA)
#

# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

# Path to the qmail boot script.
qmail=/var/qmail/rc
RETVAL=0

# Until glibc's locale support is working right again, work around it.
LANG=C

# Change the major functions into functions.
start() {
	echo -n "Starting qmail: "
	daemon ${qmail}
	RETVAL=$?
	echo
	[ $RETVAL = 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/smtp
	return $RETVAL
}
stop() {
	echo -n "Shutting down qmail: "
	killproc qmail-send
	RETVAL=$?
	echo
	[ $RETVAL = 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/smtp
	return $RETVAL
}

# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
  start)
	start
	;;
  stop)
	stop
	;;
  restart)
	stop
	start
	;;
*)
	echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
	exit 1
esac

exit $RETVAL

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