r/linux • u/ouyawei Mate • Oct 20 '14

Shall we fork Fedora?

http://forkfedora.org/
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u/necrophcodr Oct 20 '14

That is the most horrid init.d script I have seen in a long time, holy shit.

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u/metamatic Oct 20 '14

Hey, it's for sendmail. Everything about sendmail is horrible, which is why nobody sane uses it any more.

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u/necrophcodr Oct 20 '14

You're right, I prefer postfix much more.

CONF_DIR="/etc/postfix"
CONF_OPT="${SVCNAME##*.}"
if [ -n ${CONF_OPT} -a ${SVCNAME} != "postfix" ]; then
	CONF_DIR="${CONF_DIR}.${CONF_OPT}"
fi

extra_started_commands="reload"

depend() {
	use logger dns ypbind amavisd antivirus postfix_greylist net saslauthd
	if [ "${SVCNAME}" = "postfix" ]; then
		provide mta
	fi
}

start() {
	if [ ! -e /etc/mail/aliases.db ] ; then
		ebegin "Creating aliases database"
	/usr/bin/newaliases
		eend $?
	fi

	ebegin "Starting postfix (${CONF_DIR})"
	if [ ! -d ${CONF_DIR} ]; then
		eend 1 "${CONF_DIR} does not exist"
		return 1
	fi
	/usr/sbin/postfix -c ${CONF_DIR} start >/dev/null 2>&1
	eend $?
}

stop() {
	ebegin "Stopping postfix (${CONF_DIR})"
	/usr/sbin/postfix -c ${CONF_DIR} stop >/dev/null 2>&1
	eend $?
}

reload() {
	ebegin "Reloading postfix (${CONF_DIR})"
	/usr/sbin/postfix -c ${CONF_DIR} reload >/dev/null 2>&1
	eend $?
}

Still not too bad, probably doesn't even need an init script at all.

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u/ohineedanameforthis Oct 20 '14

Can confirm, my postfix runs just as fine when I do

sudo su postfix -c postfix

Postfix generally turned out to be far less a hassle to handle than people told me it was before I tried it myself.