Proposed guideline for init script files

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Wed Feb 28 14:26:51 UTC 2007


Le Mer 28 février 2007 15:10, Rex Dieter a écrit :
> Laurent Rineau wrote:
>> On Wednesday 28 February 2007 13:59:29 Christopher Blizzard wrote:
>
>>> +1.  In general if you have to edit an init startup file, it's a bug.
>>> Configuration should be in /etc/sysconfig/foo.
>>
>> Right. But are we sure our scripts are configurable enough for usages of
>> all
>> administrators?
>>
>> As an administrator, I would like to be able to use Fedora without
>> filling a
>> bug when my local settings are incompatible with Fedora's init scripts.
>
> A better workaround, in cases like these, is to rename the customized
> init script so that the incompatible changes will not be lost.

Also the scripts won't ever get flexible enough if people finding
limitations in them don't report them

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot




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