On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Andrew Josey wrote: > As part of the testing of the fhs aspects of the LSB I've noticed > that the spec mandates presence of certain files in /etc which do not > appear to be on several Linux machines that I've tried the tests > out on. In some cases perhaps the files should not be required > at all, in some cases (networking files) they would appear > to need to be made conditional on the feature being configured.
I'm not convinced the LSB should mandate any config files in /etc what so ever. Mandating the APIs for configuration information is sufficient, and typing Linux to aprticular file formats forever seems like a poorly thought out idea. Erik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | "For the next two hours, VH1 will be filled with foul-mouthed, | | crossdressing Australians. Viewer discretion is advised." | | | | Linux Application Development -- http://www.redhat.com/~johnsonm/lad |
