tags #367337 confirmed pending thanks On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 03:40:40AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > This is leading me to believe that the current package is not going > the right direction. I think it should go a different direction. > Previously the aide program was renamed to aide.real so that > /etc/cron.daily/aide could call it "aide". But 'aide' the program is > not the sole domain of /etc/cron.daily/aide and that is causing me > problems. Instead I am thinking that the binary should not be renamed > nor wrapped with a script. The packaged /etc/cron.daily/aide script > should instead be calling a wrapper script by a different name. It > would be much easier for those two scripts to coordinate between each > other. This would avoid tripping over other uses of the program. > Between those two scripts all of the semaphoring and modular config > file processing can be handled without causing problems to other > unrelated scripts. > > Let's see, /etc/cron.daily/aide calls /usr/bin/aiderun which > concatenates the config file and semaphores the output database to > protect against cron tasks overrunning themselves. It then calls > /usr/bin/aide the binary to perform the activity. This avoids any > conflict with other scripts using aide the binary. That seems like a > clean approach to me. > > What do you think?
Accepted, implemented, and committed to svn. Thanks for being so persistent and for your striking arguments. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 72739835 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
