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I am not sure if this is a subject for the user or the developer list, but |
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I have a feeling it should be here. |
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Gentoo is different then many other distributions in the fact that it does |
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not use the /etc/inuit.d/arc[0-6].d/ directories for the initialization |
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scripts. Normally it is not a problem, but today I did encounter an issue |
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with this fact. While installing on my machine, it insisted on installing |
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scripts in the arc?.d directories. I had to create these directories for |
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it to complete the installation. I am sure this is not the only program |
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that attempts to install scripts in these directories (as a matter of fact |
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I know of other two that will do so). |
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What is the long term solution to this? Is the only way to handle it is to |
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create these fake directories and then convert the startup/shutdown scripts |
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to the Gentoo standard with the start() and stop() functions and install |
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them in one of the run sub-directories using arc-update? |
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BTW, I checked the LSB 1.1 to see what they say about initialization |
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scripts, but from a quick glance, I didn't see them requiring the |
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/etc/init.d/rc?.d directory structure. |
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Avi |
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-- |
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Avi Schwartz |
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avi@×××××××××××××××.com |
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"I have to share the credit. I invented it, but Bill made it |
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famous." - IBM engineer Dave Bradley describing the |
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control-alt-delete reboot sequence |
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