Re: rc.d links in SuSE

[Chip Seraphine]

Hello, Alexander

Alexander Mattausch wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Using insserv you cannout chose your run numbers. The Required-Start and 
> [...]
> We have a SuSE-compliant init-script running, I can send it to you if 
> you like.

That's OK.  I understand how insserv works; the problem is that I want 
to use it in a convergent manner with cfengine.

> With proper Required-Start entries it is quite straightforward. You only 
> lose the ability to give your own numbers.

Well, right.  But since being able to predict the names of the links is 
necessary to use convergence efficiently, that's quite a problem.

So far I've just been making my local init stuff insserv-friendly and 
using cfengine to schedule a periodic running of chkconfig.  This has 
none of the advantages of convergence (i.e. it runs wether or not it 
needs to run, and it runs at a preset time instead of as soon as the 
need is detected) but it works.

I'm finding that SuSE is a great desktop Linux, but it sure doesn't like 
it when you don't do things the SuSE way.

> Alex