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Re: Some updates to the sysvinit/initactions spec



Hi,

On Tue, Dec 12, tytso@mit.edu wrote:

>    Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 00:18:41 -0500
>    From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
> 
>    Good point.  The original place which I had suggested was
>    /etc/init.d/lsb-init-functions, but some folks objected to this on a
>    number of grounds (a) they didn't like it in /etc, and (b)
>    lsb-init-functions isn't an actual init.d script, but rather a fragment
>    of one.  
> 
>    Does anyone care to suggest another location?
> 
> No one has commented, so I'll offer a few suggestions:
> 
> /lib/lsb/init-functions
> /etc/init.d/lsb-init-functions
> /etc/lsb-init-functions
> 
> If no one comments, I'll choose /lib/lsb/init-functions.  That seems to
> make the most amount of sense.

Yes, please use /lib/lsb/init-functions

> 
>       2. killproc basename [signal] and pidofproc basename:
> 
> 	 Can we replace basename with "path" ? If we have the full path
> 	 to a program it is much easier and safer to identify the right
> 	 process.
> 
>    This seems reasonable to me, although it's a change from what the
>    SysVinit package does.  Comments?
> 
> I've heard no comments on this either.  If someone thinks this is a bad
> idea, speak now or forever hold your peace....
> 
> 						- Ted

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