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

Tziporet Koren tziporet at dev.mellanox.co.il
Thu Mar 6 02:43:29 PST 2008


Al Chu wrote:
> Hey Sasha,
>
> 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).  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.''',
>   
We have changed it to be compatible with previous OFED releases
Also since opensm executable is with the name opensm then having the 
daemon in the same name was confusing

Tziporet



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