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Re: Need bash-programmer for file-rc



On Tue, Mar 31, 1998 at 02:20:29AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:

> > > I'm the maintainer of the file-rc package.  File-rc is a replacement
> > > for the old /etc/rc?.d system.  It manages the startup scripts in one
> > > single file /etc/runlevel.conf.
> > >
> > > This package contains a replacement for update-rc.d.  In order to
> > > increase speed it is written in bash and not in perl.  Unfortunately
> > > the original update-rc.d was improved and so they're not completely
> > > compatible.
> > >
> > > I'm mostly talking about constructs like
> > >
> > >    update-rc.d netbase start 20 0 1 2 . start 10 S . stop 90 4 5 6 .

> I'm sorry but I have to object, it is n times faster that a similar
> script in e.g. perl.

But I was thinking of implementing a general update-rc.d routine
in C, supporting both the common link method as well as the new
file method.  I only need spare time for it...

Regards,

	Joey

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