On 03/27/2012 08:57 AM, Mr Dash Four wrote:
> 
>>> You've lost me! In that Fedora rc file, you have 
>>> "SYSCONFFILE=sysconfig", which gets installed in $SYSCONFDIR, so the 
>>> whole file name, including the path is /etc/sysconfig/sysconfig (made of 
>>> $SYSCONFDIR/$SYSCONFFILE), which I think is wrong - it should be 
>>> /etc/sysconfig/shorewall, hence my suggestion "SYSCONFFILE=$PRODUCT".
>>>     
>>
>> The installed filename is ALWAYS $PRODUCT; the installers don't need a
>> setting for that.
>>   
> OK, lets start again - what is the purpose of $SYSCONFFILE then? I 
> always thought that it is the name of the file which gets installed in 
> $SYSCONFDIR, isn't that so?
> 

Yes. Debian ALWAYS requires such a file and all products except
Shorewall-core include a default.debian file. In Shorewall-init, Redhat
also requires such a file which is different from the Debian one.

-Tom
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