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  • From: "Jeremy A. Kolb" <jkolb AT brandeis.edu>
  • To: "Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergey AT optimaltec.com>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Source Mage init system proposal
  • Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 17:49:06 -0400 (EDT)

I don't like the sound of that :( wouldn't it make more sense to be
compatible with other software? seems like that would prevent more
problems in the long run, especially as LSB compliance becomes more or an
issue.

Jeremy

On Wed, 7 May 2003, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:

> That means a lot of patching to get things right for SMGL.
>
> Casey Harkins wrote:
>
> >I think we should prevent init scripts from being installed outside of the
> >smgl system. I suppose if the script works, then we could let it go, but
> >most likely it'll install to /etc/init.d and possibly create symlinks in
> >the rc*.d directories.
> >
> >The main problem with letting them install, is that some packaged init
> >scripts expect a functions script (in varying locations: /etc/rc.d,
> >/etc/rc.d/init.d, /etc/init.d). Another issue is that different scripts
> >may depend on different tools (ps, pkill, kill, killall, etc), yet not all
> >of these are part of the basesystem.
> >
> >
>
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