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Re: Why is help so hard to find?



Don Armstrong writes ("Re: Why is help so hard to find?"):
> A possible hack would be to have insserv ignore any initscripts which
> are conffiles which when run without options exit with zero status.

It could probably safely invoke them with:
  /etc/init.d/obsolete --fail-please

> But this probably has some ugly consequences which aren't totally
> obvious to me right this second.

Yes.  Surely the right thing to do at this stage of the release cycle
is to tone down the extent to which we are pushing insserv, and to
revisit this questions after the release.

Ian.


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