RHAT bug? /etc/init.d/functions:daemon()

[Ben Scott]

On 2/1/06, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
> And people complain about *Perl* being line noise?

  Yah, that thought occurred to me, too.

  One of the reasons I don't use shell parameter expansion magic
myself is I find them hard to read.

> If you're doing option parsing, IMO, it's a *lot* easier to use
> getopt, whicn is a bash built-in than arcane and confusing
> bash magic like this...

  Well, I suppose one could make the argument that using bash's getopt
features are less portable then shell parameter expansion magic (which
I believe is defined by POSIX).  But given the target platform in this
case is effectively guaranteed to be using bash, I don't really think
that would apply.

> Paul "wondering why all init scripts aren't written in perl yet..."

  Because Perl lives in /usr and /usr may not be available.

  Red Hat's root install is already bloated enough, don't give them
any ideas.  ;-)

-- Ben "It's still better then APL" Scott