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RE: convention for putting a variable in a path...
Subject:RE: convention for putting a variable in a path... From:"Diana Ost" <Diana -dot- Ost -at- msmcorp -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 7 Jul 2006 15:09:15 -0400
Like this? (Table)
The install script adds the following:
Directory New Service Name [+0 - 6]
../etc/init.d/ rc0.d
rc1.d
rc2.d
rc3.d
rc4.d
rc5.d
rc6.d
This might be a good way to express it if you have to show more than one directory addition.
I think, actually, it's ../etc (dot dot slash etc) for the dir. :-)
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From: techwr-l-bounces+diana -dot- ost=msmcorp -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com [mailto:techwr-l-bounces+diana -dot- ost=msmcorp -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On Behalf Of Sean Wheller
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 3:01 PM
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: convention for putting a variable in a path...
On Friday 07 July 2006 20:45, Peter Neilson wrote:
> For nerds, who are the only audience who should care:
>
> On Linux, a service is added to each of the /etc/init.d/rc[0-6].d
> directories.
Us nerds just refer to the init scripts, we know how many there are and what they are for :-)
>
> For mundanes, who have no business poking around in /etc unless they
> are on the way to nerdishkeit:
>
> Spell out each directory with full pathname,
> and perhaps even call them "folders" instead.
I have yet to find a distro where a standard user can edit anything but what is in there ~ directory. So I agree that if a user does not have root access then they should not be poking around and should not be told to mess with the init scripts.
Again, we have no idea of the software being documented here, but IMHO, any software detined to be used by a standard desktop user should not condone editing the init scripts.
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