On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Chuck Anderson <cra@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 08:54:23AM -0400, Seth Vidal wrote: >> >> >> On Wed, 26 May 2010, Simo Sorce wrote: >> >> > While you don't edit them *all* the time, it is something that is done >> > regularly, and it is something most admins can do with ease. >> > Turn them in a C program and you left admins out in the cold, most of >> > them. >> > >> > I would be very, very wary of accepting a C "init script". >> > An unmanageable system is a useless system. >> >> +20 million. >> >> I couldn't agree more. They need to be scripts, considering how seldom >> they actually run it makes even less sense to chase down optimization in >> them by making them compiled. > > -21 million. > > Scripts are a crutch to avoid properly designed daemons and > configuration systems. I never edit initscripts to "configure" > daemons, because they would just be overwritten at the next package > upgrade. Configuration should be separate from code. I don't edit them, but I do frequently look at them to see what they're doing/why they aren't doing something/what config files i can add/edit to change behaviour etc. actually, i do edit them sometimes to add a temporary "-x" to them. sure as heck beats gdb. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
