Proposed guideline for init script files
Christopher Blizzard
blizzard at redhat.com
Wed Feb 28 12:59:29 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 15:37 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> The Packaging Committee has been discussing guidelines for init scripts for a
> while. Currently there is a split between init scripts being marked
> as %config and many that aren't. We (the PC) with input from various folks
> feel it is best to not mark init scripts as %config, and instead promote
> configuration to happen in an /etc/sysconfig/<init> file. Mostly the reason
> being that init scripts are just that, scripts to run and not config files to
> edit. As such I've drafted a proposal for the guidelines and the PC approved
> it. There is time now for a wider audience to review the proposed change and
> comment.
+1. In general if you have to edit an init startup file, it's a bug.
Configuration should be in /etc/sysconfig/foo.
--Chris
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