On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Marc Haber wrote: > I have a package where the init script contains most of the package's > functionality, and parses a free-format config file > /etc/$PACKAGE.conf. That file is not a shell script and can't be > directly sourced. > > Can I keep that file as /etc/$PACKAGE, should I move it to > /etc/default (probably not), or do I have to re-work that file as > sourceable file that is then sourced by the init script? I'm not sure. Since the initscript is most of your package, it makes some sense not to dump its stuff in /etc/default. > Do I need to keep the init script as a conffile even if there are "no > admin serviceable parts inside"? Most definately yes. You better have a damn very good reason (e.g: the world will end in a flood of Microsoft-made bovine crap with a mint smell because their marketing tried to use hordes of purple dinossaurs with shovels to distribute it) to have a non-conffile anywhere in /etc. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
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