Thanks to all who replied:
Steffen Kluge
bremner
Troy Bull
Stephen.Campbell
Mohan Mahajan
mpineda
Gernot M. Fuchs
Pat Taylor
Carlos A M dos Santos
Ryan Bae
Anthony D'Atri
The solution I used was suggested by Steffen Kluge and is as follows:
I would not recommend modifying /etc/inittab. Just create a pop
startup script in /sbin/init.d. This is the way I did it:
1. Use /sbin/init.d/lpd as skeleton, copy this file to
/sbin/init.d/pop and edit it to have it start/stop
the pop daemon;
2. Create links for this file in directories /sbin/rc0.d
and /sbin/rc3.d. Choose appropriate sequence numbers to
place the file correctly within the boot/shutdown
sequence. For my system, the following works:
cd /sbin/init.d
ln -s ../init.d/pop ../rc3.d/S41pop # start it right after sendmail
ln -s ../init.d/pop ../rc0.d/K24pop # stop it just before sendmail
3. Reboot or execute the script by running the pop daemon:
#. /sbin/init.d/pop start
Thanks to all again,
Paul
Received on Wed Apr 24 1996 - 16:31:32 NZST