On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 10:08:00AM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 06:10:07PM +0100, J. Lambrecht wrote: > > // I am not on the list so please, reply to all > > > > > > Sigh, and now i now why Debian's not for kids > > > > --- > > "From : Linux Administrator Handbook p.35 (Prentice Hall,2002) " > > > > Debian startup scripts > > > > If SuSE is the ultimate example of a well-designed, well-executed plan > > for the management of startup scripts, Debian is the exact opposite. The > > Debian scripts are fragile, undocumented, and unbelievably incosistent. > > Sadly, it appears that the lack of a standard way of setting up scripts > > has resulted in chaos in this case. Bad Debian! > > ... > > Good Luck > > Apparently the author(s) didn't read /etc/init.d/README? or lookup > start-stop-daemon? or updated-rc.d? or read > /usr/share/doc/sysvinit/README.runlevels.gz > > Remind me not to buy that book (I hope "incosistent" is your > misspelling).
IMO, you can avoid anything printed by Prentice Hall except stuff written by W. Richard Stevens. There are some oddities in /etc/init.d on debian systems; some maintainbers have, er, "interesting" ideas about scripting. However, the cool thing about debian is even if the script is FUBAR I can rewrite it and the packaging system won't blow away my changes! Try that on SuSE ... Doesn't anyone remember the horror of the monolithic /etc/rc* files that Slackware had? Thanks Mike for porting over the sysv stuff. It's not perfect but it works. -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Profanity is the one language all programmers know best. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
