Re: slackware and fsw2.00pre8

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On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Michael Richardson wrote:

>     Sam> Although enabling this during development is good for ensuring we
>     Sam> have no issues with code, it may cause our users more grief.
> 
>   You have my consent to remove it from linux/net/ipsec/Makefile on the
> release branch, should an opportunity arise.

Possibly a good idea - I'm sure Slackware won't be the only distro with 
this issue - there's probably older, less popular distro's that 
suffer/copy Slackware in this regard.

>     Sam> 2) Slackware uses a BSD style startup script, instead of the assumed
>     Sam> System V default. Can we improve our handling of this situation?
> 
>   That's a good question.
> 
>   By "BSD style", do you mean that it doesn't have run levels, that it
> has a single /etc/rc script, or that it follows recent BSD innovation
> of having /etc/rc.d?

Recent BSD style.

> 
>   In theory, it is enough to have our script invoked somewhere.
>   If the slackware people can tell us:
>   1) how to recognize their system

cat /etc/slackware-release, I believe for 7.0 and higher.

>   2) what they want us to do

/etc/rc.d/rc.ipsec would be ideal, have it "ipsec setup start" I suppose, 
and leave all the error checking to ipsec since it does a good job 
already.


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