Forcing a variant to a variant

Bradley Giesbrecht brad at pixilla.com
Thu Jun 4 18:05:47 PDT 2009


On Jun 4, 2009, at 6:00 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> On Jun 4, 2009, at 18:19, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
>
>>> Is it a terrible idea to pop in a second startup item in which  
>>> will just instal the clamav startup item?  This seems messy to me,  
>>> but it also will get the job done.
>
> Pop a second startup item in where?
>
> Note that the startupitem.* directives in MacPorts support only a  
> single startupitem per port.
>
>> It would make sense for mysql-server to depend on port:mysql and  
>> then merely be a startup item.
>
> If you s/mysql/mysql5/g then yes that's basically the status of  
> those ports today. Though mysql5-server also does create some  
> directories that are only needed when MySQL is run as a server.

clamav has clamd and freshcalm

clamd is the antivirus scanner
freshclam is the virus definition update daemon

Both need to be started.

//Brad


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