RE: disable problem+question

[mandrews]

Dang, right you are. So much for my new innovation. I could have sworn I had 
used non-shell scripts as init/rc script in solaris but apparently not. I 
suppose the answer is to use the repository=some_other_dir option to disable - 
but this is even less tested than my last answer.

Martin
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Martin Andrews
martin.andrews@lionbioscience.com 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: help-cfengine-bounces+mandrews=cle.lionbioscience.com@gnu.org
> [mailto:help-cfengine-bounces+mandrews=cle.lionbioscience.com@
> gnu.org]On
> Behalf Of Darren Dunham
> Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 5:06 PM
> To: Help-cfengine@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: disable problem+question
> 
> 
> > 
> > Since disable actions move the file to *.cfsaved it does 
> not work well for init/rc scripts (where the renamed file is 
> still processed). Instead I have been removing the execute 
> permssions like so:
> > 
> > files:
> >   /etc/rc2.d/S85power mode=a-x action=fixplain
> 
> I'm surprised that does anything at all.  On Solaris, the startup
> scripts aren't "run", they're passed as explicit arguments to /bin/sh,
> so execute permission isn't required, only read permission.
> 
> /bin/sh /etc/rc2.d/S85power start