Re: /etc/init.d scripts

1999-04-17 Thread Steve Greenland
On 17-Apr-99, 12:20 (CDT), Brock Rozen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Unless, of course, the default system $PATH has been changed, for whatever > reason. But if it was changed for a reason, then the scripts shouldn't override it. > What if I change the path? These scripts should work even if I

Re: Debian GNU [was: smarter way to differ architectures needed?]

1999-04-17 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 04:26:22AM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote: > As long as you're making the basic assumption that the package > that is built becomes dependent on the `dpkg --print-architecture` > of the build environment, [...] ... which should really be $DEB_BUILD_ARCH following my amendme

Re: Are /cdrom and /floppy really forbidden by policy?

1999-04-17 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
> Hamish Moffatt writes: HM> On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 05:31:56AM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: >> care. => This is a Good Thing and we should seriously consider >> doing it) HM> Don't forget to add "in my humble opinion" whenever you say HM> something like this. Please don't presume to spe

Re: /etc/init.d scripts

1999-04-17 Thread Brock Rozen
On 17 Apr 1999, Jean Charles Delepine wrote: > > Assume I'm running as root and have made the changes to let it happen w/o > > a password. I'm going to get an error here that it can't find > > "start-stop-daemon". Alternatively, if I change the "daemon" script to > > point to /sbin/start-stop-daem

Re: /etc/init.d scripts

1999-04-17 Thread Brock Rozen
On 16 Apr 1999, Roderick Schertler wrote: > > All scripts must have one of the following two contained in them: > > > > 1) A PATH environment setting that lists all the directories where any > > programs invoked by the script may be found. > > I don't think this is a good idea. Why should the sa

Re: /etc/init.d scripts

1999-04-17 Thread Jean Charles Delepine
Brock Rozen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One solution I've come up with is to use something of the sort: > > ssh remotehost /etc/init.d/daemon reload > > Assume I'm running as root and have made the changes to let it happen w/o > a password. I'm going to get an error here that it can't find > "s

Re: Are /cdrom and /floppy really forbidden by policy?

1999-04-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 05:31:56AM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: > care. => This is a Good Thing and we should seriously consider doing > it) Don't forget to add "in my humble opinion" whenever you say something like this. Please don't presume to speak for everyone else. I think the current sit

Re: Are /cdrom and /floppy really forbidden by policy?

1999-04-17 Thread Joseph Carter
On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 09:50:38PM +0200, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > > I like this. I'm not going to necessarily consider this something that > > is going to be done on a Debian-wide scale (though I think it should be > > personally), but I'm about to do it on MY system. Thank you for the > > sugge

Re: Debian GNU [was: smarter way to differ architectures needed?]

1999-04-17 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
> Richard Braakman writes: RB> I've read Brian's summary, but I still don't see the point of RB> this operator. It seems that what you want to accomplish can be RB> done just as easily with: RB> Depends: hwarch-${Arch}, ${shlibs:Depends} Thanks for pointing this out. I'll integrate it

Re: Debian GNU [was: smarter way to differ architectures needed?]

1999-04-17 Thread Richard Braakman
Brian May wrote: > Richard Braakman wrote: > >I've read Brian's summary, but I still don't see the point of this > >operator. It seems that what you want to accomplish can be > >done just as easily with: > > > >Depends: hwarch-${Arch}, ${shlibs:Depends} > > You can't say > > Depends: hwarch-i38

Re: Debian GNU [was: smarter way to differ architectures needed?]

1999-04-17 Thread Brian May
Richard Braakman wrote: >Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: >> [Brian, your summary of the idea is nearly perfect. Thanks for taking >> the time to explain this in a clear way that I wasn't able to. I >> really depend on people such as you to interpret my grunts and >> hand-waving and come up with a cohere