Nicolas Mailhot writes: > > On Lun 1 août 2005 06:22, John M. Gabriele wrote: > > > Hmm... Why didn't the rpm packager create at least a simple > > readme saying how to stop and start this software? > > Because this is Red Hat administration 101 and all the system daemons are > managed this way (mtas, httpd servers, etc). In fact it's not even Red Hat > specific because this kind of initialisation script is standardised at the > LSB level. This way to start daemons comes from UNIX System V, AFAIK. That makes in January 1983, a mere 22 years ago. Unless it was actually part of SVR4, in which case it was 1988, a mere 17 years ago. Andrew.