[ofa-general] Re: [OpenSM]: renaming of opensm init script to opensmd

Sasha Khapyorsky sashak at voltaire.com
Wed Mar 5 03:30:32 PST 2008


Hi,

On 13:34 Tue 04 Mar     , Al Chu wrote:
> 
> One of the sys-admins was wondering why the script name was changed from
> opensm to opensmd (which requires him to go change some internal scripts
> he uses).

I changed this in order to keep backward compatibility with OFED-1.2
(I've got several complains about this).

> Our local Redhat guy told me in the past rhel/fedora
> convention is the following (which is a comment stolen from rpmlint).
> 
> 'incoherent-init-script-name',
> '''The init script name should be the same as the package name in lower
> case,
> or one with 'd' appended if it invokes a process by that name.''',

Seems that it is against the current OFED rules, there 'd' prefix was
explicitly requested. Probably OFED should follow a distro conventions?
Vlad?

Sasha



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