On 2015/01/20 14:50, IMAP List Administration wrote: > > On 01/20/2015 02:48 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2015/01/20 14:19, Robert Urban wrote: > >> On 01/20/2015 02:07 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > >>> On 2015/01/20 13:50, IMAP List Administration wrote: > >>>> of course it's a dirty hack... *because* there is no generic mechanism > >>>> for > >>>> starting the logger of one's choice. > >>> yep, that has been rejected when it was proposed in the post. > >>> > >> ummm, does this mean that if I put some effort into finding and > >> implementing a > >> generic mechanism in /etc/rc that my diff will go into /dev/null? > > Depends if you can find a better generic mechanism than we found when we > > last looked :) > > > > can you give me a description of the rejected mechanism, or point me to a > description? >
The one I remember was a mechanism to give the name of an rc.d script from packages to use in place of a base daemon. Too confusing and complicated, local changes to /etc/rc seemed a better idea.