On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 08:44:03PM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Thu, 15 Nov 2018, Josh Triplett wrote: > > > Are you saying that even *with* that comment you'd be surprised? > > Yes. > > You probably know how many people read such instructions. But my > main point is “not being surprised” and “tons of existing, mostly > OS-independent, installation manuals out there”.
Yes, most of which thankfully say "create a real init script", if not creating something else. ;) > Plus, the +x bit can easily get lost… or, accidentally (“oh, let’s > set all files with a shebang to +x and all others to -x”), restored. And here I thought you were the one to prefer Unix admin tradition, which would happily say "if you can't get permissions right you get to keep all the pieces". > It’s not a good indicator. Some version control systems also, for > example, don’t handle it (RCS/CVS, which I’m told etckeeper can use), > and people editing on DOS/Windows generally set it. etckeeper handles permissions separately from the version control system, precisely because not all VCSes handle it correctly. > > (Personally, I *wish* that /etc/rc.local didn't exist at all by default > > and you had to *create* it if you wanted it used.) > > Oh, please, don’t go stomping over Unix admin tradition here ;-) I will refrain from expanding on how much I care about "Unix admin tradition". I'd like /etc to be *empty* on a freshly installed system, thank you. ;)
