Re: request for a init script policy

2000-07-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > I've had a look on what they have there, and it would require some work to > implement the stuff in Debian. It goes well beyond making sure all init > scripts return status 0 on OK ;-) And some of our init scripts ARE a mess. > Thankfully most of them are not that bad, but still... > > It is

Re: request for a init script policy

2000-07-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 05:18:02PM -0500, Jon Nelson wrote: > I think this is an excellent idea. Just because an idea originated at > "redhat" does not mean it is evil. I work with Redhat and Debian both every > day and appreciate their strengths and weaknesses. Actually, I think the idea com

Re: request for a init script policy

2000-07-02 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Jul 02, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > I've had a look on what they have there, and it would require some work to > implement the stuff in Debian. It goes well beyond making sure all init > scripts return status 0 on OK ;-) And some of our init scripts ARE a mess. > Thankfully most of them are n

Re: request for a init script policy

2000-07-02 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sun, 02 Jul 2000, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 10:39:48AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >was heard to say: > > I would like for us to get together and come up with a standard here. Doing > > this will benfit everyone and hurt no one. People who want the si

Re: request for a init script policy

2000-07-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 10:39:48AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I would like for us to get together and come up with a standard here. Doing > this will benfit everyone and hurt no one. People who want the silly colored > boot messages can wrap our init, as

Re: request for a init script policy

2000-07-02 Thread Jon Nelson
> So, I saw a post on freshmeat for an application called 'Aurora'. It is a GUI > wrapper around the boot messages. Currently it works on all RH variants. > Looking at the code and mailing the author, I discover that I can not port this > to debian. The reason is that he keys off of exit codes

Re: request for a init script policy

2000-06-30 Thread Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo
"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, I saw a post on freshmeat for an application called 'Aurora'. It is a GUI > wrapper around the boot messages. Currently it works on all RH variants. > Looking at the code and mailing the author, I discover that I can not port this > to de

request for a init script policy

2000-06-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
So, I saw a post on freshmeat for an application called 'Aurora'. It is a GUI wrapper around the boot messages. Currently it works on all RH variants. Looking at the code and mailing the author, I discover that I can not port this to debian. The reason is that he keys off of exit codes, which