[osiris-devel] Easier RPM Conversation

[Alexei_Roudnev]

1) All good installations installs init scripts.

Moreover, they do use this script to start application very first time.

Linux approach is simple:
- application MUST bring initialisation script into /etc/init.d
- you use run-level editor (in SuSe) or different cli tools (in RedHat) or
manual linking to set up this script in some run level;
- rpm can install script into default run level (2 for osiris).

Of course, some bad installations does not install starting scripts. But for
osiris, it is 100% must-to-be - when you do install
200 servers, you can not stay with manual commands - you just run 'rpm' or
'install.sh and have everything ready-to-use'.

It may be good idea (for osiris) to allow user build his own installation
file with his own defaults (as Microsoft is doing by their installation
modifiers, I forget exact name), so that I can set up all defaults and then
run automated script on all 100 servers; but it all must be automated.

2) 'osiris' account do not require any management, it is _local system_
account. Anyway, I agree with you - if it do exists in NIS, install should
use it (may be, writing warning) instead of creating local one.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David M. Fetter" <dfetter at pdx.edu>
To: "Osiris Developers" <osiris-devel at lists.shmoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: [osiris-devel] Easier RPM Conversation


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