On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 10:19:46PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Nathan E Norman writes: > > There are some oddities in /etc/init.d on debian systems; some > > maintainbers have, er, "interesting" ideas about scripting. However, the > > cool thing about debian is even if the script is FUBAR I can rewrite it > > and the packaging system won't blow away my changes! > > And file a bug with a patch, I hope.
I usually get beat to the real bugs. The rest are just "oddities"; for instance I hated the old DHCP startup scripts and rolled my own. I can't think of other examples off the top of my head but I know I've hacked a lot of init scripts. Your advice to file bugs is good, and I'm often guilty of ignoring it. mea culpa. -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] See, if you were allowed to keep the money, you wouldn't create jobs with it. You'd throw it in the bushes or something. But the government will spend it, thereby creating jobs. -- Dave Barry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]