Re: Another Qmail/OpenBSD Question

[Kit Halsted <kit@kithalsted.com>]

Thanks, Chris. I'm up to my ears in man csh now, & I think I 
understand what you rc.local entry does. One further question, 
though: why the "> /dev/null"? I see from man csh that that sends 
output to /dev/null, but I'm not clear on what the output in question 
is.

Thanks,
-Kit

>Kit Halsted wrote:
>>  If csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc &'
>>  is valid for rc.local, why does everything else in the file look like
>>
>>  if [ -x /usr/local/sbin/somedaemon ]; then
>>          echo -n ' somedaemon';       /usr/local/sbin/somedaemon
>>  fi
>>
>>  ?
>
>	It's a question of how paranoid you want to be about a file's
>existence: the -x <file> tests whether or not it's executable, if I
>remember correctly.  My rc.local looks (in part) like:
>
>if [ -x /var/qmail/rc ]; then
>   echo -n ' qmail'; csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc &'> /dev/null;
>fi
>
>>  (Or, better yet, is this documented somewhere? I did read man
>>  rc.local, but it didn't answer my super-basic syntax questions.)
>
>	This is part of the shell scripting syntax.