On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 10:44:15PM -0400, Christopher W. Curtis wrote: > > My idea is to have a script, '/etc/init.d/defaults', which every init > script sources. 'defaults' will read the default settings and define > common functions for the scripts to use. Here is a rough draft of the > idea: nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! this is exactly how redhat does it and it **S U C K S** there should be shell variables thats *IT* no fscking functions no fscking sourcing (except for the init script sourcing its *ONE* config file (which contains ONLY simple shell variables) > All scripts include the defaults file, and give the package name when no all scripts should only include the script config file /etc/default/portmap (or whatever) > doing so. The script will make sure the the environment for running the > package is sane, and provide functionality to start any programs it > needs (start) and to send them various signals (hup, usr1, etc). It noooooooo! this is the horrible crap redhat does. its buggy, broken, obfuscated, crap. /me considers moving to slackware or *BSD.... sheesh. [snip obfuscated ball of redhat spaghetti] im sorry but this is just plain wrong. apologies for the flame but one of the *primary* reasons i switched to debian is to escape redhats fucked up initscripts which you just described in your proposal. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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