On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 17:12 -0700, der.hans wrote:
> Am 24. Jan, 2005 schwätzte Craig White so:
> 
> > I don't think it was chkconfig that did that...it was the people writing
> > the SysV startup scripts not knowing where to hang the conf stuff.
> 
> chkconfig used to gets its configuration info from comments in the init
> scripts.
> 
> $ cat /etc/redhat-release
> Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike)
> $ head /etc/init.d/httpd
> #!/bin/bash
> #
> # httpd        Startup script for the Apache HTTP Server
> #
> # chkconfig: - 85 15
> # description: Apache is a World Wide Web server.  It is used to serve \
> #              HTML files and CGI.
> # processname: httpd
> # config: /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
> # config: /etc/sysconfig/httpd
> 
> Out of chkconfig's manpage:
> ###
> Each service which should be manageable by chkconfig needs two or
> more
> commented lines added to its init.d script. The first line  tells
> chk-
> config what runlevels the service should be started in by
> default, as
> well as the start and stop priority levels.
> ###
> 
> Using comments in executables for config info is annoying.
> 
> Don't know what those other lines are for. Hopefully they're actually
> comments.
----
look up... ^ ^ ^

# chkconfig: - 85 15
# description: ....
# processname: ....
# config: /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
# config: /etc/sysconfig/httpd

comments (1) for chkconfig to derive it's magic 
comments (2) for the user to locate where the config files for alteration. What could be clearer than that?
Annoying? I suppose you could say that but very handy if you don't know where to look.

This was a marvelous example. 
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf is for application specific configuration and 
/etc/sysconfig/httpd is for daemon options (variables passed to start apache).

But I guess what you are complaining about is the line...
# chkconfig: - 85 15
which is meaningful to chkconfig - how it derives it's magic...it's juju - you would prefer that it not hide in commented line I guess. It's probably too late to change this now but you can now chalk this up to obtained knowledge and act accordingly. This is after all, an imperfect world.

;-)

Craig

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