On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:33 AM, <meino.cra...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I have read several docs to figure out this...all docs do changes > in /etc/conf.d but I found no hint how to transfer that settings > to the "real" configuration files of the according programs. > > env-update & etc-update do not help... > > What tool do I have to call to acchieve this?
/etc/conf.d is like /etc/sysconfig in RedHat/Fedora and /etc/default in Debian: they were introduced to pass environment variables and (cometimes) extra arguments to the daemons in /etc/init.d. So, if you have /etc/init.d/foo, you can put environment variables and (perhaps) extra args for the daemon in /etc/conf.d/foo. You don't need to "transfer" anything; when you do /etc/init.d/foo start the variables in /etc/conf.d/foo are readed and passed to the daemon. It's a distro specific directory (again, like /etc/sysconfig in RedHat/Fedora and /etc/default in Debian), and the "real" configuration of the daemon will probably be on /etc/foo (if at all). The new init systemd doesn't need this kind of distro-specific thing, instead pushing the configuration where it belongs, only in /etc/foo (or whatever). I highly recommend it. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
