hello... thanks for all your answers. i think it is now clear to me. * Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> [2004-07-19 09:20 +0200]: > Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > > On Thursday 15 July 2004 15.15, Martin Dickopp wrote: > > > Sebastian Henschel <debian@kodeaffe.de> writes: > > [/etc/default] > > > See Policy 9.3.2. (Disclaimer: IANADD.) > > > > Which does only say: > > | To ensure that vital configurable values are always available, the > > | init.d script should set default values for each of the shell > > | variables it uses, either before sourcing the /etc/default/ file or > > | afterwards using something like the : ${VAR:=default} syntax. > > which isn't much. > > A few bits that you missed: > > Often there are some variables in the `init.d' scripts whose values > control the behaviour of the scripts, and which a system administrator > is likely to want to change. As the scripts themselves are frequently > `conffile's, modifying them requires that the administrator merge in > their changes each time the package is upgraded and the `conffile' > changes. To ease the burden on the system administrator, such > configurable values should not be placed directly in the script. > Instead, they should be placed in a file in `/etc/default', which > typically will have the same base name as the `init.d' script. This > extra file should be sourced by the script when the script runs. It > must contain only variable settings and comments in POSIX `sh' format. > It may either be a `conffile' or a configuration file maintained by > the package maintainer scripts. See Section 10.7, `Configuration > files' for more details. > > 9.3.5. Example > -------------- > > The `bind' DNS (nameserver) package wants to make sure that the > nameserver is running in multiuser runlevels, and is properly shut > down with the system. It puts a script in `/etc/init.d', naming the > script appropriately `bind'. As you can see, the script interprets > the argument `reload' to send the nameserver a `HUP' signal (causing > it to reload its configuration); this way the system administrator can > say `/etc/init.d/bind reload' to reload the name server. The script > has one configurable value, which can be used to pass parameters to > the named program at startup; this value is read from > `/etc/default/bind' (see below). > > ... > > Complementing the above init script is a configuration file > `/etc/default/bind', which contains configurable parameters used by > the script. This would be created by the `postinst' script if it was > not already present, and removed on purge by the `postrm' script. > # Specified parameters to pass to named. See named(8). > # You may uncomment the following line, and edit to taste. > #PARAMS="-u nobody" > > It's really not that hard to run less on policy and type /etc\/default right, i forgot that possibility, sorry. at least now there is a thread about this topic to be found in the mailing-list archives. :) cheers, sebastian -- ::: .O. ::: ..O ::: OOO ::: lynx -source http://www.kodeaffe.de/shensche.pub | gpg --import
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