Re: File naming of scripts in /etc/init.d
Dear all, Thank you for your answers. Le 25-06-2012, à 15:21:02 +0100, Roger Leigh (rle...@codelibre.net) a écrit : On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 03:59:30PM +0200, Steve R. Petruzzello wrote: Le 25-06-2012, à 14:47:58 +0100, Roger Leigh (rle...@codelibre.net) a écrit : On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 01:51:36PM +0200, Steve R. Petruzzello wrote: I noticed that some scripts in /etc/init.d/ are suffixed by .sh and some are not. [...] All except console-screen.sh, hwclock.sh and keymap.sh are from the initscripts package. So 1) nowhere is .sh suffixing mentioned and 2) some scripts are not named by their package's name (hwclock.sh is part of the util-linux package). Is there a reason for this? Nowadays, it's essentially the case that - scripts with a .sh suffix are run from rcS But not all scripts in /etc/rcS.d/ have a .sh suffix (for instance S09mdadm-raid). No, it's not a strict rule, just historic practice. If we were to do it over today, it's unlikely we would use the suffixed names. So my question was not too stupid :) Best regards, Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120627084604.GA8811@localhost
File naming of scripts in /etc/init.d
Hi, I noticed that some scripts in /etc/init.d/ are suffixed by .sh and some are not. On my sytem: host:/etc/init.d# ls -1 *.sh bootmisc.sh checkfs.sh checkroot.sh console-screen.sh hostname.sh hwclock.sh keymap.sh mountall-bootclean.sh mountall.sh mountdevsubfs.sh mountkernfs.sh mountnfs-bootclean.sh mountnfs.sh mtab.sh umountnfs.sh All except console-screen.sh, hwclock.sh and keymap.sh are from the initscripts package. I was wandering if there was a reason from this discrepancy. So I had a look in the Debian Policy Manuel, and one can read (subsection 9.3.2 Writing the scripts) that These scripts should be named /etc/init.d/package. I failed to find another reference to script naming in the rest of the document. So 1) nowhere is .sh suffixing mentioned and 2) some scripts are not named by their package's name (hwclock.sh is part of the util-linux package). Is there a reason for this? Would it be purely aesthetics to clean out these script names? Thank you for the great job. Best regards, Steve PS: Is there a way to list all packages putting a file in /etc/init.d/? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120625115136.GA27673@localhost
Re: File naming of scripts in /etc/init.d
Le 25-06-2012, à 14:47:58 +0100, Roger Leigh (rle...@codelibre.net) a écrit : On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 01:51:36PM +0200, Steve R. Petruzzello wrote: I noticed that some scripts in /etc/init.d/ are suffixed by .sh and some are not. [...] All except console-screen.sh, hwclock.sh and keymap.sh are from the initscripts package. So 1) nowhere is .sh suffixing mentioned and 2) some scripts are not named by their package's name (hwclock.sh is part of the util-linux package). Is there a reason for this? Nowadays, it's essentially the case that - scripts with a .sh suffix are run from rcS But not all scripts in /etc/rcS.d/ have a .sh suffix (for instance S09mdadm-raid). - they are not intended to be run by hand and/or after boot, or else they can screw up the system state Would it be purely aesthetics to clean out these script names? Yes, though the above distinction about them being run from rcS would be lost. And given the history, and the fact that other scripts depend on them (the names are used in the inter-script dependencies), renaming them is do-able, but not something we should be doing this close to the freeze. Sure. PS: Is there a way to list all packages putting a file in /etc/init.d/? dpkg -S $(ls -1 /etc/init.d/*) Sorry, I was thinking of the whole archive, not only the installed package. Thanks, Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120625135929.GA16892@localhost
