Re: Centralized script ...

[Stephan Engelke <engelke@math.uni-hamburg.de>]

Hi folks,

On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 10:13:01AM -0500, Debian Developer wrote:
> I am beginning to realize that one of the biggest difference (drawback) of
> Debian versus Caldera or SuSE is the abscence of a centralized file (i.e.
> /etc/rc.config like in SuSE) to hold a bunch of environment variables that
> define the behavior of the scripts in /etc/rc*.d
> 
> Is this a design intention, is this a goal ?

Just my two cents:
I don't think there is any need for environment variables to control the
behaviour of the rc?.d-scripts.  What would you like to configure?

In fact, the use of rc.config is one of the reasons I went away
from SuSE and chose Debian.  SuSE would not permit me to make partial
use of the rc.config file.  I have not been able to adapt some (not
all) configuration file by hand without having them replaced with the
files generated automatically from the rc.config settings.

I like having the option of doing everything by hand or by a specifig
configuration script (e.g. sendmailconf).  I did not find a good way to
do something like this using SuSE.

So long -- Stephan
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Stephan Engelke                                    engelke@math.uni-hamburg.de
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