[3035] in testers
Re: sgi [8.0C]: rc scripts, track subscriptionlist
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Fri Jul 26 14:01:35 1996
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 14:01:24 -0400
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[3034] in testers"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
> I discussed this with Craig. Tracking the symlinks local would, of
> course, turn the services on. What you'd like to do is rename the
> files to start with s instead of S (the standard way of turning off
> services in /etc/rc?.d).
Whoah! I didn't realize we had symlinks to S* files that were
in AFS; I'd just assumed that they were s* files. It's definitely
wrong for us to have S* files that fail to execute only because they're
broken links (talk about confusing!).
> I just realized that we can use track to rename files; we'd have to
> add subscription entries like:
>
> /etc/rc2.d/S60lp:/etc/rc2.d/s60lp:::
> /etc/rc2.d/S61bsdlpr:/etc/rc2.d/s61bsdlpr:::
>
> Likewise, if we ever go from track to synctree, we can use synctree's
> "map" option to rename such files.
This sounds like a pretty reasonable approach to me.
--jhawk
