On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 10:03:09AM +0930, John Pearson wrote: > Scripts in the Debian init.d directories are run using > run-parts. Run-parts ignores scripts that don't conform to > certain naming conventions: > > DESCRIPTION > run-parts runs a number of scripts or programs found in a > single directory directory. Filenames should consist > entirely of upper and lower case letters, digits, under- > scores, and hyphens. Subdirectories of directory and > files with other names will be silently ignored. > > > So, you shouldn't use "." in script names. This means that if > you leave any backup files lying around (e.g., mysql-server.bak, > mysql-server~, #mysql-server#, etc.) they won't be inadvertently > executed.
Indeed. I like the use of ".sh" to identify bourne shells though. I find it slightly annoying that run-parts doesn't allow this. Is there any particular reason why they decided to do implement run-parts this way (apart from the .bak thing you mentioned above)? Sven
