On Friday 26 November 2004 03:32, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 12:27:39AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
> > The attached patch makes some trivial policy changes.
> >
> > Allows Debian systems to touch /etc from an init script.
>
> i fixed the /etc/init.d script which does the /etc touching,
> sent a patch to the maintainer of initscripts.

Great! Now when will that patch go into Debian/main?

> afaik, this is the only reason for allowing debian init
> scripts to write to /etc and it's not a very good one!

I agree. But until the script gets fixed I think I have to do this to stop systems failing to correctly boot.

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