Update to solaris package creation (init script links)

Daniel Bergman d-b at home.se
Fri Mar 1 04:46:34 EST 2002


I agree with you, even though I prefer soft-link I think one should follow 
the Sun way for consistency. But I have to admit - I do create soft 
symlinks for my own RC-scripts ,-)

Regards,
Daniel

> On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 08:53:20AM -0800, Tim Rice wrote:
>> On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Ben Lindstrom wrote:
>
>> [snip]
>> > >>  The modifications are:
>> > >>     - the rc?.d scripts are hard links not soft links
>>
>> I prefer hard links too. Anyone else vote for this?
>
> I generally prefer soft links -- it seems odd that after
>  cd /etc/init.d; mv foo foo.old; mv foo.new foo
> you'd still have the old script executed. But hard links are what
> Sun uses for its SysV S/K entities, so I see the logic. Basically
> I don't like how Sun does it, but understand the logic of OpenSSH
> behaving in the same manner as the OS vendor; that's probably the
> better way to behave, for consistency's sake. :-(
>
> -Peter
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