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[Nick Jennings <nkj AT namodn.com>]

On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 05:30:30PM -0500, nealbirch wrote:
> Nick Jennings wrote:
> >  Seems like this isn't in the scope of the init.d spell. Or am I mistaken?
> > 
> >  Is the init.d spell supposed to control all base system files in /etc/ ?
> >  I think perhaps there should be a baseconfig spell or something which 
> > does
> >  this. It can track all the misc. files that reside in /etc/ and are not
> >  currently tracked by any spell.
> 
> 
> The init.d spell is becoming a catch-all for things, at the moment, by 
> default. There are some loose cannon's in this, it appears. I have 
> gotten reports from many people on this who have the symlinks, and it 
> may be from a particular iso, at the moment, my thought is how to 
> correct it.

 Hmm. I think it may be a better move to keep init.d's purpose very
 specific to init organization, and make another spell which keeps
 track of the very basic files needed in a sourcemage system. 


> A quick and dirty way would be to check for the existance of a link 
> rather than file in the mount.sh file, if /etc/mtab is a symlink, then 
> remove it before the script resets the mtab so that it can be set up 
> properly by mount. Something like the following would do it:

 Why not just inform people of this and let them decide if they want to
 change it. I think trying to control peoples filesystem layout is
 A Bad Thing (tm). We can say something like:

 It appears your mtab is a symlink. It really *should* be a normal file
 for mount to behave correctly. Please perform the following commands if
 you do not want to receive this message again:

 # ...<commands>...

 

 The more we take over peoples setup, the more we take on the bad parts
 of debian. :)


> 
> # from mount.sh
> # Addition to the mount.sh
> # for mtab symlink detection
>    mount    -n -o remount,rw /
> # added to detect and remove symlink
>    if [ -L /etc/mtab ]; then
>       rm /etc/mtab
>       touch /etc/mtab
>    fi
> # end of addition
>    echo     > /etc/mtab
>    mount    -f -o remount,rw /
>    echo "Mounting local filesystems..."
> # end change
> 
> This is probably a one shot deal, and since it's done at boot, it 
> shouldn't cause any problems. I suppose I could setup init.d to detect 
> the symlink and install a special mount.sh with the added code if 
> necessary, to be replaced the next time init.d is called.
> 
> Any comments? anything I miss?
> 
> Neal
> -- 
> "You can fool some of the people all of the time
> --and those are the ones you have to concentrate on!"
> GW Bush-- from the N.Y. Times
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