Re: Proposed guideline for init script files

[Christopher Blizzard <blizzard redhat com>]

On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 15:37 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> The Packaging Committee has been discussing guidelines for init scripts for a 
> while.  Currently there is a split between init scripts being marked 
> as %config and many that aren't.  We (the PC) with input from various folks 
> feel it is best to not mark init scripts as %config, and instead promote 
> configuration to happen in an /etc/sysconfig/<init> file.  Mostly the reason 
> being that init scripts are just that, scripts to run and not config files to 
> edit.  As such I've drafted a proposal for the guidelines and the PC approved 
> it.  There is time now for a wider audience to review the proposed change and 
> comment.

+1.  In general if you have to edit an init startup file, it's a bug.
Configuration should be in /etc/sysconfig/foo.

--Chris