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Re: chkconfig package available for review/download
In xinetd's postinstall script I'm doing the following:
If /etc/rc.d/init.d directory exists then put xinetd's startup script there.
If -x /usr/sbin/chkconfig then execute "/usr/sbin/chkconfig --add xinetd".
Sergey Okhapkin
Somerset, NJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
To: <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 11:40 PM
Subject: Re: chkconfig package available for review/download
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 08:26:36PM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
> >I've finally gotten around to reviewing this, it builds cleanly
> >and works as advertised (like sysvinit/initscripts, with the provided
> >sshd sample script). There isn't a post-install script or info page or
> >anything--it's seems very straighforward. It has my vote.
> >
> >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?
>
> cgf