From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_ADSP_NXDOMAIN, DMARC_MISSING,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from pandora.cs.kun.nl (pandora.cs.kun.nl [131.174.33.4]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCEFBAC53E for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 04:58:45 -0500 (CDT) Received: from callisto by pandora.cs.kun.nl via callisto.cs.kun.nl [131.174.33.75] with ESMTP for id g939wi3H018872 (8.12.5/3.56); Thu, 3 Oct 2002 11:58:44 +0200 (MET DST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Initial boot up script location Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 11:58:44 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <20020930190940.GB5448@kruhft.dyndns.org> <1033417963.20362.6.camel@nosferatu.lan> <200210031129.48302.sebastian@werner-productions.de> In-Reply-To: <200210031129.48302.sebastian@werner-productions.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200210031158.44237.gentoo-user@devrieze.net> Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 7e870650-7f67-466f-aaec-19dd6424841d X-Archives-Hash: e1c83c5ce633ee32a75bd7969a81fb82 On Thursday 03 October 2002 11:29, Sebastian Werner wrote: > Hi! > > I think this is really bad but forget to post this sometime ago. > What's about I want to modify this script. All other scripts are protec= ted > through portage but this file gets overwritten each update. To the > developer: Is it possible to split this script. I want to see the defin= ed > funtions in /sbin/rc (leave them in the current place) and the real > boot-script in /etc/init.d/boot so that I can modify it there... what's > about you... what do you think? > You could of course use chattr to make /sbin/rc immutable, but I would su= ggest=20 you don't, as it is dangerous.=20 Paul ps. you can of course give your own init script a different name and chan= ge=20 /etc/inittab accordingly. --=20 Paul de Vrieze Junior Researcher Mail: pauldv@cs.kun.nl Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net