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[nealbirch <nealbirch AT attbi.com>]

While typing away at the latest init.d spell, I wrote a couple of 
functions that would make it a lot easier to make sym link's to 
different run levels and I am slowly working my way through all the 
spells I have installed to implement it.

Since it only requires 4 commented lines (plus any additional comments) 
in any init script, and 2 functions to install the script file and 
create the links, it should not be to difficult to use.

This is what you will be seeing if you look at the new scripts:

#!/bin/bash
# /etc/init.d/networking.sh
# SGL-script-version=1
# this sets the run levels and priority for links
# SGL-START:3 4 5:S30
# SGL-STOP:0 1 2 6:K70

The script version let's the spell know when to update, SGL-[START,STOP] 
gives us a identifier, 2nd field is for runlevels and 3rd field is the 
priority to be assigned.

The installscript function uses the SGL-script-version to determine when 
to backup existing scripts and install updated ones. Each script will 
have a unique version number, incremented as changes are made.

The linkscript function checks the whether the links exist at the 
runlevels listed in the second field; if necessary it creates the link 
using the info the third field provides for priority.

Currently, the init.d spell installs the functions, mount.sh and 
networking.sh scripts and makes the necessary links. In addition, the 
networking.sh script is a very special case, and is handled a bit 
differently to setup.

Next 3 most likely to be included are modutils.sh, atd.sh and sysklogd.sh.

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