Kel Modderman <k...@otaku42.de> writes: > On Saturday 14 February 2009 14:01:40 Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I went to write the patch for this, but I paused when I saw that the >> other part of this sentence (explicitly running such scripts with sh at >> other run levels) is implemented. The current /etc/init.d/rc runs the >> script directly if it doesn't end in .sh but runs it with sh if it >> does. > That's not an interface that has much merit either, it would be nice if > we didn't have to support it and we had the freedom to execute the > scripts directly. Agreed. I just wanted to be sure that this was the intention. > I think all scripts in /etc/init.d/ must have a shebang line and be > executable, and be able to be executed directly. Executing .sh scripts > explicitly by sh is not something I see much value in supporting, Petter > expressed similar sentiment when I poked him on IRC. Good enough for me. This change will be in the next release of Policy. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
