On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, John Mullee wrote: > Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 19:19:14 +0100 > From: John Mullee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Some updates to the sysvinit/initactions spec > Resent-Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 19:19:43 +0100 > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > This seems reasonable to me, although it's a change from what the > > SysVinit package does. Comments? > > personally I'd prefer to see /etc contain only files that change when config > changes are made. Executables (including scripts) might rather be immutable, > and be placed somewhere amenable to read-only mounting; > somewhere like /lib/lsb, /lib/lsbinit, /sbin/lsbinit, or somesuch. > Perhaps /etc might contain symlinks to 'real' scripts, for convenient > replacement.. > > In a nutshell I think keeping static files out of /etc helps change and > security > management. > A similar rationale keeps logs under /var. > Exaclty, you are complitelly right. i was trying to say the same, but maybe my english is not so advanced to allow me to express in a complitelly clear way my thought.
This kind of "traditional" approach has too many advantages, at my eyes at less. Luigi Genoni
