On Mon, 28 Jun 2021 14:03:30 +0200 Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> do what you want but stop talking nonsense when it comes to best practice > > > > One "best practice" that I'd object to is blindly restoring whatever was > > saved on shutdown. How can one control that? Booting with some clean, > > well-defined data looks safer > > WTF: there is nothing magically or blindly saved and changed at > shutdown, it's the whole state as it was, the outcome from your script Not that I can speak on Allesandro's behalf but I'm presuming it's a reference to the save-upon-stop behaviour that may occur as a consequence of the integration performed by certain distro vendors. For example, Gentoo has a SAVE_ON_STOP option that its iptables runscript honours. I'm not sure that I've ever seen it be referred to as a good pratice, per se, but some people appreciate having such options at their disposal. -- Kerin Millar
