Re: Old bugs

[Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>]

At 19:27 +0100 1999-05-30, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> 20099  No policy on /etc/environment
>       [Should we have one?  A policy on it or even should we have it?]
>       Status: Proposal

We have several programs that use it, the problem is that there are 
at least two different expected formats. I'd say we do need policy on 
it.

> 33826  Para 3.3.2 (note number change!) says /etc/init.d scripts must
>       be named /etc/init.d/<package>; what about using '.sh' suffix?
>       Status: Proposal

For rcS scripts, .sh means the script should be sourced instead of executed.
For non-rcS scripts, it appears to mean that the script should not be 
executed directly, rather it should be run as 'sh <script> <arg>'.
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