On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 03:38, Pierre THIERRY wrote: > >> Tags: patch > > You forgot to attach it :-) > > Shit. And the BTS doesn't seem to have noticed the patch tag... > You meant to put "tags 203588 patch", "thanks" and Bcc control@bugs.debian.org, didn't you? :-) > > Event-handling from cardmgr, hotplug, usbmgr, acpid, apmd etc. are > > really useful to be able to be customised by power users. > > I think I'm something like a power user, and I hate having to read and > understand a script (being shell, perl or anything else) to customize a > package to my needs. > Then you're not what I'd consider a UNIX power user :-) > And I love a well-documented configuration file, where I just have to > change some paramters, without having to understand everything behing > it. The power user might want to focus on its work, not on the > custimozation of every signle package he installs... > Then they probably don't care what happens when the power button is pushed! > > You've assumed they want the power button to *be* a power button, it's > > entirely likely that they might want it to (for example) switch the > > user into single user mode instead. > > I didn't assume anything, and my version of the script just need th > change ACTION=halt to ACTION=single to achieve this. And if the script > is rewritten or modified to be just better, an apt-get upgrade won't > erase all the customizations made by the sysadmin, because it is in a > configuration file that have little reasons to change... > How do I configure your script to restart apache when the power button is pushed? > > Shell scripts run by event daemons are the power-user's configuration > > files. Leave them be. > > They are a very bad manner to provide configuration files to the > power-user, IMHO... And I still think this bug is an RC one. > It's not an RC bug. If shell scripts weren't allowed in /etc -- init.d would be a bit of a problem :-) Scott
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