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Re: better init.d/* : who carres ?



Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

> No.  They are not even "supposed" to be scripts at all, it is pretty ok to
> use binary initscripts (but most people don't, and it really helps for stuff
> like that to be easy to debug, and binary is anything but).

Ummm, not it's not.

In particular, you'd be violating policy by....

1) Placing binaries in /etc, in violation of FHS 3.4.

2) Policy 9.3.x, which says they're scripts multiple times

3) I strongly suspect you'd be violating Policy 10.7.3 on the behavior
   of configuration files.



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