Re: BSD vs SysV init scripts

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Author: der.hans
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: BSD vs SysV init scripts
Am 23. Jan, 2005 schwätzte Craig White so:

> Guys learn at an early age that if they are going to urinate outdoors,
> you always have to take into account which way the wind is blowing. On a
> sysV system, you merely need to know the very few commands of chkconfig
> to make it sing. It is probably the simplest of all administration
> commands ever created for Unix/Linux. Maybe it's a guy thing.


Not sure what peeing outdoors has to do with sysV init scripts, but
chkconfig has one really foolish 'feature'. Presuming config info is still
kept in the init scripts, that is.

Configuration info goes in configuration files.

Code goes in executable files.

Putting either one into the other is bad.

A script should not change because a configuration change was made.

Comments in either about looking at the other is fine, though. That's what
comments are for :). Not for holding configuration info.

ciao,

der.hans
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