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Re: Bad Debian (L.A.H.)



On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 10:19:46PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> Nathan E Norman writes:
> > There are some oddities in /etc/init.d on debian systems; some
> > maintainbers have, er, "interesting" ideas about scripting.  However, the
> > cool thing about debian is even if the script is FUBAR I can rewrite it
> > and the packaging system won't blow away my changes!
> 
> And file a bug with a patch, I hope.

I usually get beat to the real bugs.  The rest are just "oddities";
for instance I hated the old DHCP startup scripts and rolled my own.
I can't think of other examples off the top of my head but I know I've
hacked a lot of init scripts.

Your advice to file bugs is good, and I'm often guilty of ignoring it.
mea culpa.

-- 
Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:nnorman@incanus.net
  See, if you were allowed to keep the money, you wouldn't create
  jobs with it. You'd throw it in the bushes or something.  But
  the government will spend it, thereby creating jobs.
          -- Dave Barry



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