Seblu, 2011-06-27 00:28:
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Kurt J. Bosch
<[email protected]> wrote:
---
functions | 7 +++++++
rc.sysinit | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/functions b/functions
index 43414c0..9ad75a9 100644
--- a/functions
+++ b/functions
@@ -428,6 +428,13 @@ install_file() {
install -T "$@"<(printf '%s' "$content") "$file"
}
+# install would fail because files can't be removed from /proc
+# moreover we don't want to remove nodes from /dev
+write_file() {
+ local file=$1 content=$2
+ printf '%s' "$content">| "$file"
+}
+
bootlogd_stop() {
[[ -f /run/bootlogd.pid ]] || return 0
touch /var/log/boot
diff --git a/rc.sysinit b/rc.sysinit
index dcc88f5..2c08f02 100755
--- a/rc.sysinit
+++ b/rc.sysinit
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ status "Activating Swap" swapon -a
RANDOM_SEED=/var/lib/misc/random-seed
[[ -f $RANDOM_SEED ]]&&
status "Initializing Random Seed" \
- install_file /dev/urandom "$(< "$RANDOM_SEED" )"
+ cp "$RANDOM_SEED" /dev/urandom
stat_busy "Removing Leftover Files"
rm -rf /etc/{nologin,shutdownpid} /forcefsck /tmp/* /tmp/.*&>/dev/null
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ stat_done
[[ $HOSTNAME ]]&&
status "Setting Hostname: $HOSTNAME" \
- install_file /proc/sys/kernel/hostname "$HOSTNAME"
+ write_file /proc/sys/kernel/hostname "$HOSTNAME"
Do you call a function to do the job of a redirection?
Yep. We need to do it _within_ status.
--
Kurt
