[Devil-linux-develop] RFC: proposing a change to etc/init.d/ startscripts

[Friedrich L. <fl...@fl...>]

Hi!

I'm proposing a change to etc/init.d/ startscripts, namely adding a filesystem 
init routine to the start section which unpacks parts of the /var/ filesystem if 
the underlying filesystem which some daemon needs is currently empty. This 
situation will happen when eg. LV 'log' gets mounted at /var/log.

Attached is an example patch to etc/init.d/sysconfig.

As you can see current existing files are not overwritten. In case some files 
already exist but the check determines to do the umpacking some error messages 
are genereated by tar because of the already existing files.

Only filtering stderr (2> /dev/null) does not seem logical to me as I wanted to 
show if something gets done, so I accepted the possible case of distracting 
error messages. Those only say that a specific file already existed and wasn't 
overwritten.

I would add similar patches to those init script which I stumble upon and am 
able to test.

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MfG / Regards
Friedrich Lobenstock
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Friedrich Lobenstock                       Linux Services Lobenstock
URL: http://www.lsl.at/                         Email: fl...@fl...
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