On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 08:51:09AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
On 11-Sep-2005, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Sep 2005, Joe Smith wrote:
> 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.
Yet it is a configuration file with a simple, well-defined format;
surely such a tool is conceivable? Would you recommend against using
it, regardless of its merits, if it did exist?
As noted, automated changes to this file are explicitly disallowed by
policy. However, _non_automated changes are not.