Re: /etc/default? (was: Re: Bug#3368: cron's checksecurity still scans NFS servers)

[Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>]

You (Lars Wirzenius) wrote:
> Steve Greenland:
> > Maybe some sort of config file is needed here? '/etc/checksecurity.conf'?
> 
> This might be an appropriate time to start thinking again about
> /etc/default (under whatever name).  If I remember correctly, someone
> told us that one of the commercial vendors (or SVR4?) has a directory
> /etc/default, with shell scripts that set certain variables.  This is

Yes yes yes. Let's do this, but we'll have to be sure we are compatible
with other systems. I think the shadow package also wants /etc/default,
and so does mgetty. I for one would be very happy with /etc/default/boot
etc. for the init scripts!

Unless ofcourse has a better proposal, which wouldn't surprise me given
the neat ideas that are part of debian already ;)

Mike.
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