Re: Some updates to the sysvinit/initactions spec

[teg@redhat.com (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)]

John Mullee <john.mullee@chello.be> writes:

> > 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..

/etc/init.d and /etc/rc.d/init.d has been used by most distributions
for years now - and /etc/init.d is also used by Solaris

Changing for the purpose of changing is bad... IMHO, the LSB should
seek to standardize current behaviour not redesign everything. That
way lies pain.
> 

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