* William A. Rowe, Jr. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote :
> At 07:58 PM 11/20/2002, Thom May wrote:
> >This is in response to a debian bug request; basically it just tightens up
> >the list of allowed characters, so we don't include .dotfiles and backups
> >etc.
> >Thoughts?
>
> Yea... I'd ask for exactly what I've been asking for over a year...
>
> ...does anyone have a decent reference to the exclusion applied
> for other packages that provide the config directory globbing that
> we added/emulated with this feature? Can we be consistent for
> the benefit of the administrator community here?
>
Well, my suggested change is (on debian at least) providing exactly the same
logic as run-parts(8), which is used to process /etc/cron.*/ and others. So
it's consistent for our platform, at least.
run-parts is present on Red Hat 8, also.
Cheers,
-Thom
> Bill
