chkconfig package available for review/download

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Thu Nov 21 20:40:00 GMT 2002


On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 08:26:36PM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
>I've finally gotten around to reviewing this, it builds cleanly
>and works as advertised (like sysvinit/initscripts, with the provided 
>sshd sample script). There isn't a post-install script or info page or
>anything--it's seems very straighforward. It has my vote.
>
>One question--since there is now a complete sysvinit framework, are
>we going to start encouraging service maintainers/submitters 
>(exim, postgresql) to add a /etc/rc.d/init.d/foobar script? Should there
>be some new language telling prospective package contributors about this?

I think it's premature for that however it would be interesting to have
to transform all of the "How do I get inetd/sshd/crond to start?"
questions into a "How do I get init to start?" question.

What does everyone else think?

cgf



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