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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] How should an init script determine if it is being	run during install or regular boot?</H1>
    <B>Olivier Blin</B> 
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    <I>Wed Apr 27 14:11:42 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>Michael scherer &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">misc at zarb.org</A>&gt; writes:

&gt;&gt;<i> While I can submit a new patch that checks to see
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> if /var/lib/named or /mnt/var/lib/named exists, to
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> determine if the script is running in an install or
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> a normal bootup, I'm wondering if there is a &quot;standard&quot;
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> way for an init script to determine which environment
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> it's being run in.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> There is likely some heuristics based on env vars, but nothing
</I>&gt;<i> I can think of right now ( and that doesn't seems very good to 
</I>&gt;<i> react differently during installation or not ).
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You can use the following:

if [ -z &quot;$DURING_INSTALL&quot; ]; then 
  ...
else
  ...
fi

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Olivier Blin - blino
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