On Thu, 14.04.11 18:40, Michał Piotrowski (mkkp4x4@gmail.com) wrote:
2011/4/14 "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" johannbg@gmail.com:
On 04/14/2011 04:19 PM, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
/etc/sysconfig/xxx is mostly a Fedora/Red Hat idiom. I am pretty sure
the Debian version of the boot scripts do not honour this request.
Debian has mostly identical /etc/default/xxx.
Perhaps the same team that look at /run changes can come back together and discuss this problem reach consciousness amongst distro about the right path and everbody fix it accordingly...
I am afraid that something like that will not be possible in this case
- I expect much resistance from the users :)
Of course, one common directory i.e /etc/services_config (or anything else with a better name) in all major distributions would be nice thing.
The place for system configuration is /etc. I have yet to see a really convincing example why /etc/sysconfig/ or /etc/default would win us anything. I am pretty sure that the vast majority of files in there are pretty much unnecessary and their configuration could be solved in a different way much nicer.
So yeah, I'd push for phasing /etc/sysconfig out for most services, not standardize it.
Lennart