Re: [sysvinit] Re: ?New sysvinit version 2.89dsf?

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Dr. Werner Fink]
> In the inittab of an openSUSE the runlevel S is not correspond
> identical to the system initialization.  This because our policy
> points out that no disks nor partitions or any other service should
> be activated by a cold boot intio single user mode.  It had been
> very useful in past to do it that way but introduced a lot of work
> to make a switch into any other runlevel work well ;)

Yeah.  Debian do not have such a useful single user mode.  I have a
long term plan to bring one to Debian, but a lot of packages need to
change for that to happen. :)

> > 91_sulogin_lockedpw.dpatch
> 
> Hmmm ... if root pw is locked down the way out is a boot disk
> only.  Why should such a broken system exist or in an other
> way why should a sysadmin disable its own maintenance job?
> We may speak about a large farm of clients *with* disk with
> one of the clients having a disk crash.

This is used by Ubuntu, which depend on sudo for admin access.

Btw, should we make a framework to allow the manual pages to be
transalated using .po files?  The current framework do not really
work, as the translated pages quickly become obsolete.

Please commit the Debian patches you believe make sense for this
release, and let me know which were commited.  I doubt I will have
time to do much testing this week, but would love a new release.  If
you got time to work on it, please push out a new release quickly. :)

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen