Re: Use of editfile to support templated configuration files

[Tim Nelson]

On Wed, 14 Dec 2004 wbmccarty@gmail.com wrote:

> On a related front, has anyone played with external modules or the m4
> macro processor to simplify management of init scripts and services,
> along the lines suggested at
> [http://cfwiki.org/cfwiki/index.php/Co-operating_with_Vendor_initscripts]?
>
> I've made limited progress using m4, but may be re-inventing the wheel.

	I've got a mostly working script called "service-extra" that does 
some of the same stuff.

	For those who aren't redhat aficionados, Redhat has a script 
called "service", which basically runs "/etc/rc.d/init.d/$1 $2".  The idea 
is that you go eg. "service httpd restart", instead of typing in the full 
thing.
	I called mine "service-extra", because they're actions that I'd 
like to see in "service" someday.  It has 3 actions:
permstart: start + chkconfig on
permstop: stop + chkconfig off
clean-restart: stop, kill all processes, start

	Anyway, I run this script from shellcommands.  It doesn't really 
answer your question, but I thought it might interest.

        :)

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