On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 08:54 -0400, 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.
I *very* strongly agree also. I do change init scripts, but even more
than this, I see a growing trend for Linux systems to be less friendly
to user modification. We are not so smart that we should do this.
Jon.