Re: init script management

On 04/29/2013 05:15 AM, Alice Wonder wrote:
> I'm very tempted to try to write something similar to chkconfig but in
> Python, primary motive for me is something to have in RPM scriptlets.
>
> But before I do, is there already something? Well, obviously there's
> chkconfig but the two versions I know of are compiled (overkill) and a
> perl version that apparently is overly complex (I think part of
> SuSE ??).
>
> Also, before I do, does it look like LFS is sticking with SystemV init
> (my preference) opposed to systemd? I prefer SystemV init but that's
> mostly because lately my short term memory isn't so good, and thus it's
> hard to learn a new system ;)
>
> If I do write my own, my goal is to try to make it more or less
> universal (no need to make special headers in the init script) but have
> it potentially use headers (like the dependency part of LFS init script
> headers) if they exist.
>


What about writing it using lua, then it would fit better into rpm as 
rpm has an internal lua interpreter.
I have just looked at the language as I have the book Beginning Lua 
programming and I am impressed at what it can do.


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