Re: Some updates to the sysvinit/initactions spec
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, John Mullee wrote:
> Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 19:19:14 +0100
> From: John Mullee <john.mullee@chello.be>
> Reply-To: Jmullee@hotmail.com
> To: lsb-spec@lists.linuxbase.org
> Subject: Re: Some updates to the sysvinit/initactions spec
> Resent-Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 19:19:43 +0100
> Resent-From: lsb-spec@lists.linuxbase.org
>
> > This seems reasonable to me, although it's a change from what the
> > SysVinit package does. Comments?
>
> personally I'd prefer to see /etc contain only files that change when config
> changes are made. Executables (including scripts) might rather be immutable,
> and be placed somewhere amenable to read-only mounting;
> somewhere like /lib/lsb, /lib/lsbinit, /sbin/lsbinit, or somesuch.
> Perhaps /etc might contain symlinks to 'real' scripts, for convenient
> replacement..
>
> In a nutshell I think keeping static files out of /etc helps change and
> security
> management.
> A similar rationale keeps logs under /var.
>
Exaclty, you are complitelly right.
i was trying to say the same, but maybe my english is not so advanced to
allow me to express in a complitelly clear way my thought.
This kind of "traditional" approach has too many advantages, at my eyes
at less.
Luigi Genoni
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