On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 16:08 -0800, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > "William L. Maltby" <BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com> wrote: > > Philosophically, I agree. *However*, we should keep in mind > > that the original provision of that script was to keep > local > > sysadmins (and others) from having to monkey with the > > standard "supported" stuff. > > Not true. Please note the word "original". If you research back to the epoch or thereabouts, you may find that I spoke the truth. I began working on UNIX PWB Versions 6/7. There was no "local" then. No symlinks, etc. Later, (with SCO?) I saw rc.local appear. And its purpose was as I stated. I can't recall if/when it all appeared in System III/IV/V. There were a couple different versions of directory structures too. I don't consider myself qualified to *know* the purpose and/or intent of current developers/maintainers. That's why my subsequent statements were qualified with "if". Anyway, I do appreciate you bringing me "up to snuff" regarding current intent, purpose and attitudes. Thanks for taking the time. I do have 1 question regarding your information. You mention that the directories are intended for packages to use.... but you don't mention the sorts of things that started this thread, "local" changes other than packages. If the OP was to use a script to do the mentioned firewall changes, and his script is locally generated (not part of a package), is it still intended that the script be stuck in the directories as if it were just another package? Or would that be better invoked (directly or indirectly) via the rc.local script? > <snip> > -- Bryan > > P.S. Non-Red Hat note -- also remember that > /etc/rc.d/rc.local is _not_ LSB last time I checked. Several > distros (and even non-Linux releases, such as Solaris) define > a /etc/rc#.d/S99local instead, and I think that's what Red > Hat now does too (starting with what distro release?), which > then points at the "local" for their implementation > (/etc/rc.d/rc.local, being the legacy for Red Hat). So one > might argue that "/etc/rc#.d/S99local" is the script. But > now I'm just being anal. @-ppp -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20051104/744fdab4/attachment-0005.sig>