On Tuesday 27 November 2012, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
Michal Kubeček wrote:
On Tuesday 27 of November 2012 11:21EN, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
The person decided to do it via shell hacks as it was quite common to do it that way back then. It's a good thing to get rid of such hacks and patch the features into daemon itself anyways, indepedent of whether or not systemd is used for booting.
As far as I can say from the proposed config, the features are actually implemented in atd and the "hacks" just translate sysconfig variables to command line parameters. Many init scripts do things like this as daemons rarely parse /etc/sysconfig themselves.
So? We are talking about free software here. Add a few lines of C and they do. No need to add shell wrappers.
Hm, on the other hand this at package is a very good example how you can mess up a package by adding tons of "nice" patches so that it becomes really hard to follow upstream.
Suse's at packages got not updates from upstream since 2005. Maybe one reason for this is that nobody wants to rebase (and test) all these existing patches.
cu, Rudi