Oops spelling mistake :

#rc-update del apache default

this is to remove apache reference to your default init script, not  
postfix as i originally posted (dangers of copy/paste google!)


Quoting "Stuart Mathews" <stuart@...>:

> Mark Knecht wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>   I need to actually learn a little Gentoo stuff. Thanks in advance.
>>
>>   On my wife's machine there's an error message at boot time which says
>>
>> /etc/init.d/apache2 missing
>>
>> or something to that effect. Now I think I installed apache2 a long
>> time ago looking at some mythtv option but that's no longer used and
>> apache isn't on the system. However she gets this message at boot
>> time.
>>
>>   Searching around I didn't see anything obvious about why this
>> happens. There's nothing sowing up with rc-update. However there is a
>> file
>>
>> /etc/runlevels/default/apache2
>>
>> which I suspect is involved. Is it? Is it left over from some earlier
>> ebuild that didn't remove it? Can I remove it by hand and fix things
>> or is there some better tool for keeping this part of the machine
>> happy and healthy?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mark
>>
> I broke my ibook with Gentoo a while back, so I can't test this out  
> for you but have you tried to reinstall apache and then uninstall it  
> cleanly?
>
> It looks like you have an entry in  your default startup init script  
> that looks for the apache init script and it cant find it ...
> try this to remove this reference :
>
> #rc-update del postfix default
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Stu
>
>
>
>



Kind regards,

Stuart

Kind regards,

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