I don't see what the problem is here.
I compiled spamassassin via "rpm -tb <spamassassin-tar-ball>" to give me
rpm's to install, and spamassassin is controlled via "chkconfig spamassassin
on" and service spamassassin start/stop/restart works fine.
If you are running a rhat box, you really should install all possible
packages as rpm's (in fact any distro that includes a package management
system you should install all possible software via that system) that way
you can handle such details as config file cleanups and other programming
handled by the package all in the system - so upgrades don't generally leave
random files that you really don't want sitting around the system.
Installing packages from tarballs directly when there is a way to install it
from a distro packaged system is just a way to add to system complexity, and
make life difficult in case a system rebuild becomes neccessary. I build
many random packages not included in the root system archive via making
either a deb or an rpm (we run debian and rhat here only, and we are
attempting to switch all rhat over to debian as debian has a much better
stable distro - and stability is important to us), and all those packages
are placed on backup tape once a month... generally even a catastrophic
system crash will only have that particular system down for only a few hours
at most - and that's if we have to do rebuild the physical system as well
(it happened once for a company I was at - their database server for their
warehouse was crushed by a bad forklift driver - we had the database up and
running again on a new system in about four hours).
I can understand the lack of interest from the developers in building rpm's
/ deb's themselves - that would entitle too much work, as they would need to
cover rpm's and deb's for each possible install system - hence the reason
they distribute as a tarball but include the files in the package to create
your own package files.
Regards,
Cassandra
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart Gall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "John Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Getting spamd to start on boot.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 1:01 AM
> Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Getting spamd to start on boot.
>
>
> > When I run chkconfig --list, spamd does not show up.
> > When I run chkconfig --list spamd, I get the following:
> > service spamd supports chkconfig, but is not registered (run 'chkconfig
> > --add spamd')
> >
> > If I enter chkconfig --add spamd It just does it.
> > Then after that, if I enter chkconfig --levels 2345 spamd on I get the
> > same.
> >
> > Then run chkconfig --list spamd , still not showing up.
> >
> > Hmmm. Any suggestions?
> >
>
> Option 1.
> Just add spamd -d to the end of /etc/rc.local
> This has the disadvantage that sendmail will start up and spamd wont be
running yet.
> But then how many times will you reboot in a year ?
>
> Option 2.
> cd /etc/rc2.d
> ln -s /etc/init.d/spamd S79spamd
> the S79 bit might not be quite right, you should look to see what number
sendmail has and go one less.
>
>
> Stuart Gall
> Systems Administrator
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