serving pop3

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 14:38, Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 21:51, Mike Chambers wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 14:34 -0500, Steven Stern wrote:
> > 
> > > After making the change, while still in /etc/mail, type
> > > 
> > >   make -C /etc/mail
> > > 
> > > When that finishes
> > > 
> > >   /sbin/service sendmail restart
> > 
> > Actually, just the above command is all you need to do, not both.
> > service command will take care of the make -c stuff automatically.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Mike Chambers
> 
> 
> Mike,
> 
> Exactly where in the code for the service command does it call the make
> command??
> 
> I looked through that code and I see nowhere that it does anything other
> than call the init script to manage the services.  And I KNOW that
> /etc/init.d/sendmail does not call a make command itself.
> 
> Unless you can point to the exact portion of code that does this I will
> continue to believe that I must do the "make -C /etc/sendmail" command
> myself and will recommend to others that they do the same.
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cat /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail

you are looking too deep.

Craig