On 03/17/2012 08:40 PM, Philip Hands wrote: > I'm happy to help with that ...
Cool! Let's do it together then. > although, I doubt we're the first people > to think of something like this, and it would be a shame to ignore an > existing solution. > > RedHat have some functions for use in init scripts, in > /etc/rc.d/functions (although I've not used RedHat for a decade or more, > so I've no idea what's included there). > I had a look in a CentOS VM, and I didn't see such file. Is it only in RHEL? > OpenWRT does something quite interesting, which is that they have an > /etc/rc.common and then make the init scripts start thus: > > #!/bin/sh /etc/rc.common > # Copyright (C) 2006-2010 OpenWrt.org > # Copyright (C) 2006 Carlos Sobrinho > > NAME=dropbear > PROG=/usr/sbin/dropbear > START=50 > STOP=50 > PIDCOUNT=0 > ... > > so the thing that actually gets run is the /etc/rc.common, which sources > the init.d script at its end, so it is possible to override any part of > the common script by including functions in the service specific script, > but otherwise it just does the default. > The idea is nice, I think that being able to overwrite the functions you want is cool, even though there are many other ways to do it. But it seems to be a bit hard to integrate with dh_installinit, Probably, what we would like is a symlink to this rc.common, with the package specific script being located in /etc/$whatver being sourced by rc.common, right? Do you see how we could do and keep a dh_installinit compatibility? Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f64c041.4050...@debian.org
