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by staticshock 4262 days ago
Sure, debug that shell script, but then don't forget to propagate the fix to all the shell scripts.

The shell script approach violates the DRY principle--it's probably super similar to some 50 other init scripts on the same system. systemd, in principle, removes the boilerplate so that the bug would only have to be fixed once.
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chronid 4262 days ago
So does rc.subr under freebsd. Or openrc under gentoo.

I would not be surprised if all that boilerplate present in the shell script was now in /etc/mail/make now. No Fedora system around to check this right now, though.

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