On Sun 19 Jul 2009 13:43 -0400, Daenyth Blank wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 10:23, Randy Morris<randy.morris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I think of out all the options here, copying the current inittab to > > .pacsave and installing a new, working inittab makes the most sense. > > Then a user would at least have a chance to boot and read their logs to > > see what happened if they even notice there is a problem. > > This is exactly what Arch *doesn't* do, and it provides .pacnew files > for this purpose. Well, I do think saving the current config as a pacsave is a hell of a lot better than altering it and wondering what the hell happened to your original config. So that's a compromise I'd be willing to accept.
