On 2017-01-02 18:37, Tom H wrote:
On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 4:58 PM, jdow <[email protected]> wrote:
On 2017-01-02 07:26, Tom H wrote:
On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 4:12 AM, jdow <[email protected]> wrote:
The SYS5 stuff in 6.x and prior lacked flexibility, to be sure. It was
simple enough that figuring out what was going on became easy. And
where the documentation failed the workarounds were not all that
difficult. But, then,the first 'ix I played with was one of the first
commercial renditions of SVR4 - on the Amiga. So over about 25-ish
years I'd learned it. I don't HAVE another 25 years to learn something
with documentation that requires extreme google-fu to find. (I did
manage to find a page that described /etc/sysconfig contents, FINALLY.
I've been looking for that off and /on for 5 years or more.
/usr/share/doc/initscripts-9.49.37/sysconfig.txt
"man --index" is needed methinks.
Pointers to that list in the documentation for RHEL tuned systemd
would be a good thing.)
It's not a systemd directory - and it's a directory that systemd
upstream dislikes.
It is intimately involved with systemd as used on RHEL based systems.
Cross references can tie it all together in a nice logical package
with bows on it.
Indeed but it's provided by the initscripts package so it should be
the latter's responsibility to provide, for example, "man sysconfig"
but it never has. AFAIR, neither upstart in EL6 nor sysvinit in
previous EL versions referred to "/etc/sysconfig/" in their
documentation (just as they don't refer to "/etc/default/" on
Debian/Ubuntu).
There are signs that somebody goes through the man pages and RHEL documentation
to tune aspects of the documentation, chiefly file locations, for the RHEL
environment. That process probably should include initscripts documentation in
the references where appropriate. It would be a nice value added component.
{^_^}
