On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 08:38:16PM -0400, Joe Smith wrote: > > "Justin Pryzby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 08:51:09AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > >>On 11-Sep-2005, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >>> On Fri, 09 Sep 2005, Joe Smith wrote: > > > >>> Yes. But AFAIK there are absolutely no plans to provide an > >>> interface for ANY package to touch /etc/inittab. Screwing it up is > >>> so utterly callous, that one would have to be out of his mind to > >>> encourage any package to attempt to "auto configure" anything inside > >>> /etc/inittab. > >> > >>Yet it is a configuration file with a simple, well-defined format; > >>surely such a tool is conceivable? Would you recommend against using > >>it, regardless of its merits, if it did exist? > >As noted, automated changes to this file are explicitly disallowed by > >policy. However, _non_automated changes are not. > Actually because it is not a conffile, it can be automatically changed if > and only if the the change is performed via a well-defined interface (ie a > proigram or library call). The argument is if such an interface should > exist for this file. Correct; my statement was specific to /etc/inittab as it exists now, without such an interface.
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