Re: About using Linuxconf
On Sat, 28 Dec 1996, Shaya Potter wrote:
>
> I don't understand, I thought we would just use the regular init.d scripts
> for starting and stoping even under linuxconf. A script would be nice to
> set up a basic dropin, but it should be modified by the maintainer to take
> full advantage of linuxconf. Also, I just realized, that many
> postint/prerm scripts wills have to updated b/c in reality if we have
> linuxconf installed we want linuxconf to start and stop the daemons, even
> though the scripts would do the samething, just so we don't make linuxconf
> go bonkers.
> This shouldn't be that hard just have a
> if [ -x /usr/sbin/linuxconf (or whatever) ]
>
> do linuxconf's stop command for drop in
> else
> /etc/init.d/packagename stop
> fi
>
Hmmm, it seems that I don't understand. My thought was to
implement linuxconf in such a way that it didn't do anything at
all, but could (easily?) be configured to. It doesn't sound like
that's realistic.
>
> I was actuallt thinking that this would be a good feature to put in debmake
> if we are actually going to make linuxconf a major part of the
> distribution, not just an extra item (optional, but still major). However,
Again, I misunderstood. I was thinking it would be possible to
create a tool to help people convert to and from a linuxconf
environment. That would mean translating existing scripts to
dropins and vise versa. It wouldn't require package maintainers
to do anything. I'm sure I must have missed an earlier part of
this discussion, so I'm going to drop out of it and just listen
for a while.
Thanks
Richard G. Roberto
richr@bear.com
011-81-3-3437-7967 - Tokyo, Japan
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