Re: Scripts for /etc/init.d or /etc/rc.d

Joel S writes:

> http://www.fastcoder.net/~thumper/software/sysadmin/chkconfig/.
> Unfortunately, chkconfig failed to compile with gcc--3.2.2 under Solaris 8;
> a macro-enabled error message asks for either the Redhat popt or GNU getopt
> library.  I haven't pursued those libraries.

Good idea; I'll try to give that a try-to-build shot...

> >   Or better, it would simply supply a <chkconfig-fragment>,
> >   maybe 
> > 
> >   <chkconfig-fragment><table>
> >     <entry name="service">samba</entry>
> >     <entry name="spec">234 21 82</entry>
> >     <entry name="description">Provide file service to Windows hosts.</entry>
> >   </table></chkconfig-fragment>
> > 
> >   and then some "super-chkconfig" script would slurp these
> >   in and make everything behave.
> 
> Should the "spec" entry follow the chkconfig program format as in your
> example?  Or should the three parameters (run levels, start order, and stop
> order) be individual entries?
> 
> I think that individual entries would be more ark-like.  Team owned packages
> could override prototype entries.  Ark code could refer to the values by
> name.  The spec entry could be constructed using ark macros.

I think you're probably right.  I try not to be too
doctrinaire about such things, and let practice evolve
toward The Right Thing.  Anyway that might give us...

<chkconfig-fragment><table>
  <entry name="service">samba</entry><table>
    <entry name="levels">234</entry>
    <entry name="on">21</entry>
    <entry name="off">82</entry>
    <entry name="description">Provide file service to Windows hosts.</entry>
  </table></entry>
</table></chkconfig-fragment>

Make sense?

Will


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