Subject: Re: /etc/default? (was: Re: Bug#3368: cron's checksecurity still scans NFS servers)

From: Michael Meskes <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 08:37:39 +0200 (MET DST)

Miquel van Smoorenburg writes:
> Yes yes yes. Let's do this, but we'll have to be sure we are compatible
> with other systems. I think the shadow package also wants /etc/default,

No shadow only needs login.defs and login.access.

> and so does mgetty. I for one would be very happy with /etc/default/boot
> etc. for the init scripts!

Yes, /etc/default/boot sounds good.

Michael

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From: Marek Michalkiewicz <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 20:24:17 +0200 (MET DST)

> No shadow only needs login.defs and login.access.

... and /etc/default/useradd.  While /etc/default sounds good to me,
it is no big problem to change the pathname if necessary.

Marek