Re: webmin rpm and chkconfig...

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

jam...@te... wrote:

> jam...@te... wrote ..
> 
> 
>>Yeah, that's probably what happened. If I moved the K scripts to just
>>runlevels 0, 1 and 6 would that cause it to attempt to be re-started when
>>switching from runlevel 3 to 5 ?
>>
> 
> It should not provided you are creating a subsys file.  And you are (you
> call it a lockfile, but who cares (-;).  The code /etc/rc.d/rc actually
> uses that file to determine if it should try to start a "sub system"/rc
> script or not.  So for instance, it would work like this:
> 
>      1) Go to run level 3.
>      2) See if webmin subsys file exists.
>      3) It does not so start it.
>      4) webmin rc script creates the subsys file.
>      5) Go to run level 5.
>      6) See if webmin subsys file exists.
>      7) It does so don't run the webmin rc script.


Yeah, webmin creates a subsys file on redhat. Glad to hear it is good

for something ..

 
>>>Concerning chkconfig, I can see why for your purposes you may want to
>>>
> avoid
> 
>>>chkconfig.  You want the RPM to install on as many machines as
>>>
> possible.
> 
>>>Still you probably don't want to have the links be part of the files
>>>
> that
> 
>>>ship
>>>with the RPM.  The reason is that those links are subject to change by
>>>the
>>>user (their kind of like config information).  I would make their
>>>
> creatoin
> 
>>>part of your post script and their deletion part of your of your preun
>>>
>>They could also be marked as config files in the .spec file I guess ..
>>
> I suppose you could do that.  Some rpms take this approach, and you end up
> with symblinks called S??*.rpmsave hanging around.


Good point .. that wouldn't be a good idea then.

 
>>>provide entries in some database (I am not sure where it lives) for
>>>
> ntsysv
> 
>>>and friends.  Its just the right thing to do on a RedHat based system.
>>>On the other hand that makes your code more complicated.
>>>
>>I did consider having the script and links created by a post script,
>>
> similar to
> 
>>code that is run when installing the .tar.gz version of webmin. This
>>
> would
> 
>>be good for distros like suse that used /sbin as the init script base
>>directory instead of /etc/init.d !
>>
> You HP/UX places there rc scripts under /sbin also.  Very scary.  That was
> the one thing about HP/UX I always scratched my head over.


Fortunately I don't have to worry about installing RPMs on HP/UX though :)

  - Jamie