Re: How can I modify /etc/inittab?
On Fri, 09 Sep 2005, Joe Smith wrote:
> 20050909200859.GA792@khazad-dum.debian.net">news:20050909200859.GA792@khazad-dum.debian.net...
> >Don't. /etc/inittab is critical infrastructure on every system where it is
> >used, NEVER EVER touch it.
> >
> >Document what the user has to do to activate the package, instead, and let
> >him activate it where he wants, the way he wants.
>
> The proper way to activate the package *IS* by changing inittab. Only init
Then tell the user that, and DO NOT TOUCH /etc/inittab.
> Since there is no interface you must instruct the user to edit the file by
> hand. That is all policy allows. If you wish you can file a wishlist bug
> against sysvinit.
Yes. But AFAIK there are absolutely no plans to provide an interface for
ANY package to touch /etc/inittab. Screwing it up is so utterly callous,
that one would have to be out of his mind to encourage any package to
attempt to "auto configure" anything inside /etc/inittab.
--
"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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