Re: Bug#179125: maintainer scripts tries to exec script in /tmp
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 00:22, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 00:29, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> > Russell complained that this wouldn't work with SELinux's security and
> > that I should use start-stop-daemon instead. In order to do that, I
> > have to give it a script to run; otherwise I can't feed a sequence of
> > commands to one run of start-stop-daemon.
>
> Couldn't you have start-stop-daemon run a shell script in /usr/sbin that uses
> parameters or environment variables or whatever it takes to do the job?
>
> You could take the original init script, remove the "su" bits, put it in
> /usr/sbin and then have it called by the new init script.
I could, but why use up an inode and disk block for something that is
only used during installation? The current solution seems more
economical of resources.
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Oliver Elphick Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk
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