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  • From: Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • To: Nick Jennings <nkj AT namodn.com>
  • Cc: nealbirch <nealbirch AT attbi.com>, <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] problems with mtab
  • Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 06:56:05 -0500 (EST)

My 2 cents: I agree with Nick entirely.

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Nick Jennings wrote:

> 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. :)
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