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Re: chkconfig package available for review/download
- From: Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 20:47:04 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: chkconfig package available for review/download
--- Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> wrote:
> >One question--since there is now a complete sysvinit framework, are
> >we going to start encouraging service maintainers/submitters
> >(exim, postgresql) to add a /etc/rc.d/init.d/foobar script? Should there
> >be some new language telling prospective package contributors about this?
>
> I think it's premature for that however it would be interesting to have
> to transform all of the "How do I get inetd/sshd/crond to start?"
> questions into a "How do I get init to start?" question.
>
> What does everyone else think?
This seems like the best approach to me--it's conceptually how a regular
Unix works. However, it would be only marginally useful if there is no easy
way for init to start inetd/sshd/crond (i.e., via init scripts for each
service).
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