[Initng] default runlevel locations

Ismael Luceno ismael.luceno at gmail.com
Sun Jul 29 00:46:01 CEST 2007


El domingo, 29 de julio de 2007 00:03 +0200, Jens Persson
<xerxes2 at gmail.com> escribió:
> Buenas noches folks!

Hi Jens.

> A while back I found out through che on irc that svn version of
> initng uses /etc/initng/default.runlevel as default instead of 
> /etc/initng/runlevel/default.runlevel. Now this move back to the old
> one seems a bit odd to me as I thought that having a separate dir for 
> runlevels was a good idea indeed. And it would be nice if there was a 
> "local" runlevel file too as default. And if you have them in its own 
> dir you can skip the file extensions alltogether.

The change was made as a side effect of a limitation in service_file,
but that limitation is gone, so now we can go back to using a runlevel/
dir. I've committed the necesary changes a few hours ago.

> Proposal for a default scheme:
> 
> /etc/initng/runlevel/default -> Here you ONLY put which other
> runlevels to use! (just "system" and "local" in this example, no
> paths needed) /etc/initng/runlevel/system -> Here goes DISTRO
> SPECIFIC stuff that the user should not ever have to touch.
> /etc/initng/runlevel/local     -> Here goes user specific stuff.
> 
> It would make it "a lot" easier for different distros to help and 
> support each other if there was a default scheme that worked out of
> the box. :D

+1.

> And a little late but i vote yes on switching to gplv3.
> Keep up the good work all and looking forward to use Initng with the
> new shiny initng-scripts layout.
> 
> greets jens
> 
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