On Fri 10 Oct 2008 at 09:13AM, Ed McKnight wrote:
> 
> 
> Danek Duvall wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 08:38:04AM -0700, Ed McKnight wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Gotta SVR4 package currently creating a flag file by /usr/bin/touch in 
> >> postinstall. It could alternatively have been created 'directly' from an 
> >> entry in the prototype file.
> >>     
> >
> > What's a "flag file"?
> >   
> A file whose meaning is not in its contents but in its presence; 
> typically an empty file.
> 
> thx,  --emk

Will you be deleting said file after performing some first-time
initialization?  Do you want it to come back after upgrades to the
package?

You might want to sketch out the scenario more completely.

        -dp

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Daniel Price - Solaris Kernel Engineering - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - blogs.sun.com/dp
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