hello... thanks for all your answers. i think it is now clear to me.
* Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-07-19 09:20 +0200]:
> Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote:
> > On Thursday 15 July 2004 15.15, Martin Dickopp wrote:
> > > Sebastian Henschel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > [/etc/default]
> > > See Policy 9.3.2. (Disclaimer: IANADD.)
> >
> > Which does only say:
> > | To ensure that vital configurable values are always available, the
> > | init.d script should set default values for each of the shell
> > | variables it uses, either before sourcing the /etc/default/ file or
> > | afterwards using something like the : ${VAR:=default} syntax.
> > which isn't much.
>
> A few bits that you missed:
>
> Often there are some variables in the `init.d' scripts whose values
> control the behaviour of the scripts, and which a system administrator
> is likely to want to change. As the scripts themselves are frequently
> `conffile's, modifying them requires that the administrator merge in
> their changes each time the package is upgraded and the `conffile'
> changes. To ease the burden on the system administrator, such
> configurable values should not be placed directly in the script.
> Instead, they should be placed in a file in `/etc/default', which
> typically will have the same base name as the `init.d' script. This
> extra file should be sourced by the script when the script runs. It
> must contain only variable settings and comments in POSIX `sh' format.
> It may either be a `conffile' or a configuration file maintained by
> the package maintainer scripts. See Section 10.7, `Configuration
> files' for more details.
>
> 9.3.5. Example
> --------------
>
> The `bind' DNS (nameserver) package wants to make sure that the
> nameserver is running in multiuser runlevels, and is properly shut
> down with the system. It puts a script in `/etc/init.d', naming the
> script appropriately `bind'. As you can see, the script interprets
> the argument `reload' to send the nameserver a `HUP' signal (causing
> it to reload its configuration); this way the system administrator can
> say `/etc/init.d/bind reload' to reload the name server. The script
> has one configurable value, which can be used to pass parameters to
> the named program at startup; this value is read from
> `/etc/default/bind' (see below).
>
> ...
>
> Complementing the above init script is a configuration file
> `/etc/default/bind', which contains configurable parameters used by
> the script. This would be created by the `postinst' script if it was
> not already present, and removed on purge by the `postrm' script.
> # Specified parameters to pass to named. See named(8).
> # You may uncomment the following line, and edit to taste.
> #PARAMS="-u nobody"
>
> It's really not that hard to run less on policy and type /etc\/default
right, i forgot that possibility, sorry. at least now there is a thread
about this topic to be found in the mailing-list archives. :)
cheers,
sebastian
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