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Re: Problems with using debconf in init script...



On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:00:05AM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote:
> Well, I'd rather prefer to have the configuration information nicely
> separated from the script. Note, one file per script and human
> editable. That allows the maintainer to update the script without
> forcing the admin to merge manually. I'm not sure if this is what SuSE
> does, but I don't see why it would be bad.

Use, umm, /etc/default/<service> then. See bug #66912, which should be
in policy version 3.2.1.2.

Cheers,
aj

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