Re: [Devil-linux-develop] two old feature requests

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Roland Pabel wrote:
> Hi,
> I looked through the pending feature requests, found these:
> 
> 2002-12-04 20:52
> [ 648606 ] split /etc/sysconfig/config
> move the "START_FOO" stuff to another file
>  we could use software.start as file name and then 
>  rename the software file to software.install
> 
> Is this still an issue?

I still like this, to get the stuff a little more organized.

> I'd suggest moving START_FOO and the variables DAEMON, PARAMETERS, ... from 
> the /etc/init.d/ scripts into /etc/sysconfig/foo . Would make it look more 
> tidy perhaps ;-)

I wouldn't do this, I think we should leave it in the init scripts.

> [ 564057 ] ifconfig -> ip
> switch from the ifconfig command in the network script 
>  to the ip command. 
> 
> All occasion of ifconfig in /etc/init.d/network can be easily changed to ip, 
> except for the setting of the hardware mac address. ip can't do this, I am 
> not even aware of any program except ifconfig that can do this...
> comments?

I'm not sure if we really should do this changes (yeah I know I 
suggested it... ;-) ).
Any opinions about it?

Heiko