Proposed guideline for init script files

[Callum Lerwick]

On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 14:38 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 07:59 -0500, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> > +1.  In general if you have to edit an init startup file, it's a bug.
> 
> Exactly ... and what can users do about it? Edit them.
> 
> With them not being marked %config users can only hope that RH/upstream
> fixes it before the next update blows away their edits :(
> 
> > Configuration should be in /etc/sysconfig/foo.
> But real bugs and missing features init scripts suffer from can't.
> 
> As I've said many times before, I consider not marking init scripts 
> %config a regression, Fedora will regret.

cp -a /etc/init.d/foo /etc/init.d/foo-custom
chkconfig foo off
chkconfig foo-custom on

Jesus !@#$ing christ, Ralf. Do you ever stop and think before ranting?
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