On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 00:44 +0000, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Drew Parsons said: > > On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 18:24 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > > Why not source the script? Error in the script should IMHO be > > > detected and cause the initscript to fail. > > > > If I understand Eduard's case properly, I think I don't want to do that > > because I specifically do *not* want to run the script in the case where > > the local admin has deliberately made it non-executable. The issue at > > hand is disabling daemons from running, while having them installed. > > It occurs to me that the simplest thing to do here is to just do the > simplest thing. If the fear is that file may not be executable, then > test for that. > > XPSERVERLIST="`[ ! -x /etc/init.d/xprint ] || /etc/init.d/xprint > get_xpserverlist`" >
This seems reasonable to me. As far as I can see it satisfactorily manages both Eduard's and Justin's comments. Drew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
