I agree the startup method of OSX is strange.<br><br>I have not used it but /etc/rc refers to standard unix startup file.<br><br>/etc/rc.local<br><br>Darwin 8.5.0<br>Mac OSX 10.4.5<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 4/3/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Julian Field</b> <<a href="mailto:MailScanner@ecs.soton.ac.uk">MailScanner@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On 2 Apr 2006, at 22:40, James Gray wrote:<br><br>> Hi All,<br>><br>> I'm hoping I'm not about to "break new ground" :) Has anyone got<br>> any reports<br>> on using MailScanner on Mac OSX (Intel)? I'm simplifying my
<br>> network at home<br>> with a Mac Mini (Core Duo thing) replacing 3 old tired PC's.<br><br>There are a few people (and I mean _very_ few) doing this, after a<br>guy at Sophos got it working on 10.3.<br><br>It's one of the projects I want to get onto, and may be able to put
<br>in some time on it very soon.<br><br>There are those 2 packaging systems (Fink and the other one I can't<br>remember) which would provide an easy, though cumbersome, solution.<br><br>Would that be good enough for now?
<br><br>What I really want is a system that uses launchd properly and at<br>least has a system preference for starting and stopping it.<br>Slimserver nearly does this, but in a pre-Tiger form, not using<br>launchd. I would much rather "do it properly" than hack something
<br>together.<br><br>If anyone can point me in the right direction, such as an example<br>package that already does all this that I can plug into, that would<br>be fantastic.<br><br>But even working out how to program for launchd would be a start. The
<br>OSX way of booting appears to be very complicated, involving reams of<br>XML.<br><br>Sorry that doesn't really answer your question, but....<br><br>><br>> So far I've figured out that OSX is using Perl 5.8.6 and Postfix of
<br>> some<br>> flavour. Does anyone have any pre-installation validation tools or<br>> advice on<br>> what to expect? I know OSX is BSD under the hood, but the directory<br>> structure is seriously weird for someone coming from a "pure" Linux/
<br>> BSD/Unix<br>> background.<br>><br>> BTW - where the hell does OSX keep it's cron jobs and services?<br>> I've got<br>> Apache+MySQL running on it but they both came with neato *.dmg<br>> packages....I'm a real OSX n00b I'm afraid :P Unlike most n00b's
<br>> though I'm<br>> happy to work with Julian to get the bugs sorted and possibly<br>> create a OSX<br>> "port" complete with dmg package etc....now THAT interests me!<br>><br>> Thanks in advance.
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