[Mageia-dev] Cleaning up init

Thu Jan 31 22:59:51 CET 2013

'Twas brillig, and Dan Fandrich at 31/01/13 14:54 did gyre and gimble:
+> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:00:36AM +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+>> 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.
+> 
+> True, but if we haven't told our users what their symbolic links
+> should look like, we can't be going about deleting the wrong files.
+> 
+>> Anyone else have any comments on this?
+> 
+> The revised solution instead breaks when the link contains double
+> quotes. How about this instead:
+> 
+> find -L find /etc/rc.d/rc{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7}.d -type l -exec rm -f {}
+> +
+
+Nice trick! -L to follow links to what they point at then -type -l to
+only show symlinks which, thanks to the -L, can only be broken symlinks.
+
+The 2nd "find" is obviously a typo, but very nice trick overall :)
+
+Cheers
+
+Col
+
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