Re: Init system deba{te|cle}
On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 10:23:02AM +0100, Marko Randjelovic wrote:
>>
>> I find shell scripts the most efficient way to automate system adin
>> tasks. It could be because I am a programmer, but at least init
>> scripts are already provided, and small modifications should not be a
>> problem even for non-programmers. For new scripts you have 'skeleton'
>> file that can be easily adjusted for a particular work.
>
> Amongst other problems, how do you (or the package system) reconcile
> when you have made a local modification to an init script and the
> upstream package has made another in an update?
Also how many init scripts are admins editing or is this theoretical?
And if it's to fix lacunas in the scripts shipped by Debian, are bug
reports being filed for these scripts to be patched?
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