[Mageia-dev] Cleaning up init

Tue Jan 29 11:19:46 CET 2013

'Twas brillig, and JA Magallón at 29/01/13 00:03 did gyre and gimble:
+> After a test with symlinks -r, I discovered I had /etc/rc.d full of
+> dangling symlinks, due to services moved to systemd.
+> 
+> Should an update of initscripts clean them (symlinks -rd /etd/rc.d) ?
+> I suppose this will also happen when people updates mga2 to mga3...
+
+I've added a filetrigger to initscripts package to clean up the dangling
+symlinks.
+
+I didn't use the symlinks tool as it's not a required package.
+
+find /etc/rc.d/rc{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7}.d -type l -exec sh -c 'if [ ! -e {}
+]; then rm -f {}; fi' \;
+
+This does much the same job, but "find" is already used in multiple
+places so probably a better solution even if the command is more convoluted!
+
+If anyone spots any issues with this, please shout.
+
+It'll be in the next initscripts package and it cleaned up all the
+dangling symlinks in /etc/rc.d for me.
+
+Col
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
+colin(at)mageia.org
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