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[Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>]

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.




On Tue, 6 May 2003, Jeremy A. Kolb wrote:
> Q: does this mean that init scripts that are installed outside of the
> source mage system will most likely not work?
>
> Jeremy