[Sudoscript-devel] Re: sudoshell (fwd)

[Howard O. <hb...@eg...>]

In theory, yes. But the list didn't exist when the discussion started. 8)

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Date: Thursday, April 25, 2002 10:34:52 AM -0700
From: Florin Andrei <fl...@sg...>
To: Howard Owen <hb...@eg...>
Subject: Re: sudoshell

I don't mind at all. The whole discussion should have started on the
mailing list anyway.
I just subscribed to the mailing list.

On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 10:30, Howard Owen wrote:
> Do you mind if I forward this to sudoscript-devel, Florin? You can
> subscribe, if you care to, at
> http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/sudoscript-devel
>
> --On Thursday, April 25, 2002 10:23:25 AM -0700 Florin Andrei
> <fl...@sg...> wrote:
>
> > Yeah, that's fine. Even inside the Linux world, there are many init
> > scripts "styles" with different distributions. That will change once the
> > Linux standards will become more prominent, but until then...
> >> From what i see, people simply choose to provide different init scripts
> > for different OSs/distributions.
> >
> > On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 16:20, Howard Owen wrote:
> >> I'm not sure its going to be possible to make a single init script for
> >> Linux, Solaris
> >> and Irix. The Solaris case is just too different. Irix and Red Hat
> >> Linux both use a
> >> 'chkconfig' system. The Red Hat chkconfig uses the comments in the init
> >> files to determine
> >> the runlevels, which are exercised by 'chkconfig on' and 'chkconfig
> >> off',  Your
> >> code has a 'links' case for doing that. My Irix experience is about
> >> four years out of date
> >> and I don't recall how chkconfig is implemented, exactly. Is the
> >> 'links' case the standard
> >> mechanism for adding the links with 'chkconfig on'? What does
> >> 'chkconfig off' rely on?
> >> Also, I'd prefer using some more explicit test of the platform rather
> >> than  testing for the
> >> existence of '/etc/rc.d'. I assume that your 'uname -s' returns 'irix'?
> >>
> >> In case we decide to use a seperate o
> >> ir	
> >> --On Wednesday, April 24, 2002 12:18:01 PM -0700 Chan Wilson
> >> <cw...@co...> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hi Howard,
> >> >
> >> > Attached you'll find a patch which fixes several perl issues WRT
> >> > precedence (mainly, saying "open blah, foo || die" won't ever
> >> > actually die)  and a few other nigglets that caught my eye while
> >> > getting this to work under Irix.  I've also included an init script
> >> > for Irix which comes from a generic template; you may want to adjust
> >> > / add to it so you only need one flavor of init script.
> >> >
> >> > I may have some more after I try this out a bit; I've been looking
> >> > for something like this for awhile and although it's got
> >> > shortcomings its a tactic to play with...
> >> >
> >> > thanks,
> >> >
> >> > --Chan
> >> >
> >> >  Chan Wilson :: cw...@sg... :: 650/933-9515 :: SGI Enterprise Net
> >> > Services
> >> >
> >> >  People don't ask for facts in making up their minds.  They would
> >> >  rather have  one good soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.
> >> > --Leavitt
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Howard Owen                      "Even if you are on the right
> >> EGBOK Consultants                 track, you'll get run over if you
> >> hb...@eg...    +1-650-339-5733  just sit there." - Will Rogers
> > --
> > Florin Andrei
> >
> > There's nothing to be ashamed of in coming up with the obvious,
> > especially when nobody else is coming up with it.
> >
>
>
>
> Howard Owen                      "Even if you are on the right
> EGBOK Consultants                 track, you'll get run over if you
> hb...@eg...    +1-650-339-5733  just sit there." - Will Rogers
-- 
Florin Andrei

There's nothing to be ashamed of in coming up with the obvious,
especially when nobody else is coming up with it.


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Howard Owen                      "Even if you are on the right
EGBOK Consultants                 track, you'll get run over if you
hb...@eg...    +1-650-339-5733  just sit there." - Will Rogers