Re: How can I modify /etc/inittab?
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Ben Finney wrote:
> On 11-Sep-2005, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > Then tell the user that, and DO NOT TOUCH /etc/inittab.
>
> Unless by using a well-defined interface for doing so. To my
Well, a broken inittab is a nightmare to repair for anyone without
console access and without some advanced knowledge (init=/bin/bash,
repair the crap, exec /sbin/init and so on...).
I would really, really prefer if NOTHING attempted to muck with it.
A tool to plug to dpkg that parses inittab and refuses to allow
the package to uninstall if any of its components is listed there
would be handy, tough.
Anyway, ask the sysvinit maintainer if he would be amiable to such
an interface. If he says 'yes', then bring it up on the initscripts-ng
alioth.debian.org project, and we shall attempt to design one.
--
"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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