On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 06:41:31PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > >> "JB" == Jay Barbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > JB> I don't ever remember touching this package before (file-rc), what is > JB> it's story? > JB> is it needed? Should I hit reinstall in dselect? > > file-rc is an approach to handle the scripts in init.d in another fashion > then trough the symlinks in rc.* directories. It has *one* file which > describes which script has to be started/stoped in which runlevel.
I accidently installed this package once...be very carefull. last I used it (accidently installed it) it wasvery broken. It was not unmounting filesystems and remounting them read-only before halt/reboot ing. I tried to figure out what was wrong (not knowing that file-rc existed, much less as installed). > I'd consider it alpha and because it interacts with booting, I don't use > it (too risky IMHO). Don't touch a running system :-) I agree...I dunno what bugs in it have been fixed and what havn't... quite frankly I LIKE the sym links method. I supose maybe I am a bit biased (during my "debugging" of the not unmounting filesystems bug, it hosed my entire drive -had to reinstall debian) but like I said I LIKE sym links -Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
