Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 20:30:26 +0000 (GMT)
From: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Facility names that begin with a dollar sign ('$') are system facility
> names, defined by the LSB, and MUST be provided by distributions. LSB
> applications should not provide system facilities. This document
> defines the following system facility names:
Umm $.. Oh great - Ted when was the last time you wrote in /bin/sh 8) Can
we pick a less loaded character say _
Facility names never appear in init.d scripts except in the
commented-out descriptor block. They're logical names which only have
to get parsed by the initd shell script installer. Granted, it makes it
a little bit harder to write said installer as a shell script, but it's
only a little bit more of a pain.
> apmd atd crond dhclient dhcpcd gpm halt identd inet
> httpd kudzu klogd lpd mcserv named nfs nfslock pcmcia
> portmap random routed rstatd rusersd rwhod sendmail smb
> snmpd sshd syslog xfs xntpd ypbind
Can we swap these for generic equivalences 'kudzu' is very Red Hat and
doesnt explain what it does 'hwchanges' would.. - its like httpd versus
apache 8)
This was a list of init.d names that would have to be reserved, given
that RedHat 6.x is using kudzu. It's probably also a good idea to
reserve "hwchanges", and encourage distributions to use that name in the
future.
- Ted
