[Mageia-dev] Cleaning up init

Thu Jan 31 11:00:36 CET 2013

'Twas brillig, and Dan Fandrich at 30/01/13 22:49 did gyre and gimble:
+> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:19:46AM +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+>> 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.
+> 
+> This solution has a problem handling files with embedded spaces and
+> special shell characters. It could potentially be bad if run on a system
+> where a link such as "/etc/rc.d/rc0.d/S01Super * Star Program" exists.
+
+While I'm pretty sure no such init script exists and would break in
+other ways, it's still a valid point. I've changed it to "{}" now.
+
+Anyone else have any comments on this?
+
+Col
+
+
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