| On Saturday 18 April 2009 04:56:22 Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Henrique de Moraes Holschuh] > > The local modifications have to be done on the initscript headers, which are > > conffiles since the dawn of time. > > This is not quite true. One can override a scripts headers by adding > a file in /etc/insserv/overrides/, and that is how I propose to do > local modifications. > > > There is also an override directory that can be used to change the > > dependency headers instead of editing the initscript, but we should > > get rid of any need to ship files in there as part of the release > > goal (local admin can place stuff there as he wishes). > > There is actually two override directories, > /usr/share/insserv/overrides/ and /etc/insserv/overrides/. These behave differently too; lsb headers in /usr/share/insserv/overrides/ only have effect for corresponding scripts in /etc/init.d/ that lack lsb info alltogether. lsb headers in /etc/insserv/overrides/ trump all. > > Note that changes done to the list of enabled runlevels for a given > service is preserved by insserv, while the sequence numbers are > recalculated when the boot sequence is regenerated (typically when > update-rc.d is executed). > > Happy hacking, Thanks, Kel. |