Walter Dnes posted on Mon, 27 May 2013 18:40:21 -0400 as excerpted: > What does this accomplish that could not be accomplished by... > * placing a switcher script in /sbin > * booting to single-user mode, and running the switcher script
FWIW I agree with you. In part my post was to make it obvious that's really what we'll end up doing if we want any sort of robustness at all. Otherwise there's simply too much that can go wrong. But assuming people DO insist on traveling that road, there's only one way to do it robustly; thru some sort of single-user-mode by that name or something else. And if it's going to be done, let's quit wasting time on all the too horribly brittle to think about if not simply broken methods that I've seen discussed, and get to it with something that really is proven to work, a single-user-mode of some sort, with scripts to simplify the already simple and potentially break those doing something complex, sure, but if anything's going to work, that'd be it. And if even that can't be made to work or is found not to be worth the hassle, well... -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
