Re: init and agetty packages available for review/upload. (fwd)

["Sergey Okhapkin" <sos at prospect dot com dot ru>]

Done. I added /etc/postinstall/sysvinit.sh. The script sets up default
/etc/inittab and /etc/rc (if not exist) and copies itself to
/usr/bin/init-config for setting up init as a service later.

http://users.rcn.com/sokhapkin/release/sysvinit/

BTW, how to upgrade or uninstall the package if the package's application
runs as a service? We need to stop the service first on upgrade/uninstall
and to remove the service on uninstall. We need some kind of postinstall
counterparts - preupgrade and preuninstall scripts.

Sergey Okhapkin
Somerset, NJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Corinna Vinschen" <vinschen@redhat.com>
To: <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: init and agetty packages available for review/upload. (fwd)


> On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 01:41:54PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
> > Sergey Okhapkin <sos@prospect.com.ru> wrote:
> >
> > > Because these scripts are accessible for everyone and may change
> > > global configuration settings, these scripts are for for cygwin
> > > administrator only.
> >
> > They won't be able to do anything that the user didn't have priviledges
to
> > do anyway, but I suppose they could confuse a user.
> > I suppose there is an argument for putting admin-only scripts in
/usr/sbin.
> > But balance that against increased chance of them not being noticed, and
> > change of a Cygwin convention.
>
> I agree with Max here.  I don't see how these scripts could do more harm
> than any other application in /bin, e. g. cygrunsrv.  Especially I don't
> think this design decision is actually bound to putting two new packages
> into the Cygwin distro.  I'm not against discussing this but we can do
> this completely independant from your new packages.  First of all, the
> *existence* of such a script is important to help users setting up things.
> Putting all these scripts into another place is the next step.
>
> Corinna
>
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