Re: chkconfig package available for review/download

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 08:47:04PM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
>--- 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). 

Sure, but the cynical part of me quails at the thought of switching the
user base over once we have all of the init.d scripts available.  I can
hear the cries from people who are trying to run two versions of sshd at
the same time now.

cgf