Re: [Tutor] Init Scripts

2008-07-04 Thread Monika Jisswel
IMHO the Linux OS itself relays heavily on python in some way or the other, but as far as the boot process is concerned I think you should consider the fact that it was engeneered by very smart poeple, very security aware poeple, so you will have to give a really good ALTERNATIVE to thier engeneeri

[Tutor] Init Scripts

2008-07-04 Thread Stephen Nelson-Smith
Hello, I've been wrestling with some badly written init scripts, and picking my way through the redhat init script system. I'm getting to the point of thinking I could do this sort of thing in Python just as effectively. Are there any pointers available? Eg libraries that give process informati