On 05/26/2010 02:54 PM, Seth Vidal wrote:
On Wed, 26 May 2010, Simo Sorce wrote:
> While you don't edit them *all* the time, it is something that is done
> regularly, and it is something most admins can do with ease.
> Turn them in a C program and you left admins out in the cold, most of
> them.
>
> I would be very, very wary of accepting a C "init script".
> An unmanageable system is a useless system.
+20 million.
I couldn't agree more. They need to be scripts, considering how seldom
they actually run it makes even less sense to chase down optimization in
them by making them compiled.
-sv
We mainly speek about rc.sysinit, which most of you don't touch, because it
would be overwritten the next initscripts update anyway.