Re: chkconfig is to redhat as ___ is to debian?
Neil Darlow wrote:
>
> On 3/7/02, 12:42:05 PM, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote:
>
> > How is creating the symlinks yourself any less clean than using a
> > program to create the symlinks "automatically?" I think this is mostly
> > a difference of opinion.
>
> Simply, that by using update-rc.d no knowledge of the directory structure
> of /etc/rcN.d or /etc/init.d is required. The utility also makes
> acceptable
> assumptions depending on how much command line information is provided.
Sorry, but I concur with this. Most of programming is defining some
kind of
interface to something else, and a valuable thing to do is to use the
highest reasonable level of abstraction to simplify the task. If you
show a specific value to doing the symlinks by hand for a specific
circumstance it may be a good idea, but I think it's a bad generalized
idea. In addition to this it's valuable to have a good vocabulary grasp
of the tools that your peers are using as a standard.
Best wishes. Sincerely, Xeno
>
> Regards,
> Neil Darlow M.Sc.
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