On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 21:08 +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Scott James Remnant: > > This is automatic enabling and disabling, and is solved in the 0.10 > > design, you'd just use a while state that specified either on AC power > > only, or on battery only. > > > I don't particularly care if it's automatic, manual, or by > phase-of-moon. The point is that some process needs to add this > while clause to the MySQL-or-whatever config file in question. > What's wrong with that?
At the end of the day, they're configuration files (I've not joined the udev move-'em-to-/lib crusade yet) - if the sysadmin has different requirements to the package author, they're free to edit them. > A possible alternate way would be to support clauses like > > # cat /etc/event.d/PowerManagerMods > modify mysql-server > while ac-powered > > which would have the exact same semantics. That'd also be a rather easy > way to disable a service. All without touching said service's own config > files. > The trouble with that is if you have a reasonably complex while clause and you want to interject something into the middle. Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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