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

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

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Hey,


On Sat, April 8, 2006 17:48, Friedrich Lobenstock wrote:
> 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.

It's probably the time of the day, but I ask anyway... ;-)

I can't see what this buys us, compared to the way we do thinks right now.

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Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
  http://www.devil-linux.org

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