On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 12:06:27AM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 10:52:03PM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: > > I was actually being ironic when I mentioned my 'scant' knowledge. At > > That's okay, because there are many subscribers to debian-user and some > of them appreciate an answer that does more than reply to strictly the > question asked. That way, just by reading posts by others, I learnt a > lot myself and I enjoyed it. When I post, people can correct me if I'm > wrong about something, which is good because people tend to be a lot more > forgiving than computers. > > > least I am happy to report that I know how init works, but I am still a > > little wary of fooling with shell scripting of any sort. Funny thing is > > that I *do* understand moderately complex Perl a lot better. Am I weird or > > not? > > Yes, definately. Just go and bash ahead at those shell scripts. What can > go really wrong here? Just don't do it on your company's database server. > Wait, did you mention "weird"? ;-)
</lurk> okay, here's another thought-- # apt-get install bsdutils # cd /etc/init.d # mv rc rc.real # touch rc # chmod +x rc # vi rc and in the new rc, put something like #!/bin/sh script /etc/init.d/rc.startup.LOG <<EOF /etc/init.d/rc.real $@ EOF echo "Remember to look at /etc/init.d/rc.startup.LOG, okay?" and then when you're through with all that nonsense, do # cd /etc/init.d # mv rc.real rc note -- this code is untested and is bound to cause cavities and hair loss. caveat debianista. -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #54 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Tired of SLOW BROWSING THROUGH THE ONLINE APACHE MANUAL? Get your own local copy and never worry about bandwidth again: apt-get install apache-doc Then browse /usr/share/doc/apache/manual.html, quick like a bunny. Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...