[CentOS] question on /etc/defaults
Robert Moskowitz
rgm at htt-consult.com
Fri Jan 30 14:52:07 UTC 2009
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 09:12 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
>> Anyway for any kernel prior to 2.6.27, I have to run the hip code in
>> userspace, not kernel space. This is due to the ESP BEET patch. There
>> is a specific hipd for userspace, but the hipfw requires a different
>> option. For a while, everytime I would get a new rpm, I would have to
>> modify /etc/init.d/hipfw to add this to OPTIONS. Then we added support
>> for /etc/defaults/hipfw to have the OPTIONS. Worked just fine in ubuntu
>> so he released it. And things stopped working for me in Centos.
>>
>> After some fiddling, I finally figured out that /etc/defaults/hipfw was
>> NOT being processed for its one line: OPTIONS= This is exactly the
>> same line that is in the /etc/init.d/hipfw, but with the added value.
>>
>
> CentOS uses /etc/sysconfig, and you have to source the file manually.
I am aware of /etc/sysconfig, but there are two files in /etc/default:
nss and adduser, so I **THOUGHT** that Centos might be using it too.
I will try testing with the file in /etc/sysconfig.
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