Re: beware sysvinit 2.58 installation

1996-01-04 Thread Mark W. Eichin
> The 0.93R6 sysvinit-2.57b used /var/log/initrunlevel as the file to > communicate with init. The debian-1.0 version of sysvinit-2.57b Interesting. I was just about to submit a report about how if I did a shutdown -h now, it halted the system, and then if I hit ctl-alt-del I got a message about

Re: beware sysvinit 2.58 installation

1996-01-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
You (Chris Fearnley) wrote: > 'Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:' > >I've changed the postinst script to create a symbolic link in /var/log, > >so that it will (hopefully) work in all cases. It is also backwards > >compatible with other programs (UPS watchdogs etc) this way. > > You might consider put

Re: beware sysvinit 2.58 installation

1996-01-04 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:' >I've changed the postinst script to create a symbolic link in /var/log, >so that it will (hopefully) work in all cases. It is also backwards >compatible with other programs (UPS watchdogs etc) this way. > >If I don't get any replies saying "this is a bad idea" I'll

Re: beware sysvinit 2.58 installation

1996-01-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
I hate to reply to my own messages, but.. You (Miquel van Smoorenburg) wrote: > The 0.93R6 sysvinit-2.57b used /var/log/initrunlevel as the file to > communicate with init. The debian-1.0 version of sysvinit-2.57b > changed this to /etc/initrunlvl (as the default was in the original source). I've

Re: beware sysvinit 2.58 installation

1996-01-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
You (Helmut Geyer) wrote: > Hi! > > There is a small problem with the new sysvinit (2.58-1) suite. Once you have > installed it, you can't shutdown/reboot/halt the system as these use a > different way of communicating than the 2.57* init (a FIFO, no longer a file). > So please make copies of the

Re: beware sysvinit 2.58 installation

1996-01-03 Thread Jeff Noxon
Something similar happened last time I upgraded init -- to Bruce's ELF version. Shouldn't packages doing stuff like that do some postinst _after_ rebooting the machine? They could just add an rc file that removes itself once it executes. Thanks, Jeff Helmut Geyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

beware sysvinit 2.58 installation

1996-01-03 Thread Helmut Geyer
Hi! There is a small problem with the new sysvinit (2.58-1) suite. Once you have installed it, you can't shutdown/reboot/halt the system as these use a different way of communicating than the 2.57* init (a FIFO, no longer a file). So please make copies of the old init,shutdown, halt and reboot pr