On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 08:45:44AM +0300, Sami Haahtinen wrote: > The 'exit 0' line in the beginning of the init file is a bad idea. for so many > times i've commented out the '### comment this line to really start the > service' lines. and then after upgrade gotten in to the position where i have > to diff bethween two maintainer scripts to add the changes or just replace the > old script and recomment the exit line.
The strategy I'm taking for mars-nwe's init.d script is:
case "$1" in
start)
test -f /etc/mars-nwe/nwserv.conf || exit 0
if grep -q "^### NOT CONFIGURED YET ###" /etc/mars-nwe/nwserv.conf
then
echo "mars-nwe has not yet been configured."
exit 0;
fi
echo -n "Starting $DESC: "
However, this is a special case, as my idea of "sensible defaults" are
very unlikely to appear sensible to most users. I'd rather the default
to be no service, rather than insecure server.
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Paul Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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