Re: rc.d links in SuSE

[Chip Seraphine]

Alexander Mattausch wrote:
> Chip Seraphine schrieb:
> > 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 just had an idea: what about something like this:
>
> groups:
>  have_cfengine_init = ( 'chkconfig -c cfengine 3 && chkconfig -c 
> cfengine 5' )
>
> shellcommands:
>  !have_cfengine_init::
>    "chkconfig -a cfengine"
>
> If I understood you right this should add the links only when necessary 
> without fooling with the SuSE scheme of installing init scripts.

Hey, that's not bad.  That works great, in fact.  I still have to run an 
external command, but the -c checks are much lighter than recomputing 
the dependencies.  Thanks for the suggestion.