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



Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:

> 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.

This does not apply to the case where the /etc/default/<service> file
might be changed by debconf...

Phil.



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