Re: diversion/conffile
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 02:13:37AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >>"martin" == martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net> writes:
> martin> okay. so maybe you can advice me. i am providing an add-on to
> martin> an existing daemon. in order for the add-on to be effective,
> martin> i need to use a different init.d script. i also would like to
> martin> disable the original init.d script with chmod 0 since it's
> martin> not needed and might actually lead to security problems.
> [...]
> You should talk to the maintainer of the other package, and
> have his init.d script look for a file that your package creates
> (after asking the user, perhaps) that works kinda like
> /etc/nologin. When the file produced by your package exists, his
> init.d script exits, and yours works. Remove the file, his wirks,
> yours does not.
See /etc/crontab for an example of this kind of coordination between cron
and anacron.
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- mdz
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