[ofa-general] [OpenSM]: renaming of opensm init script to opensmd
    Al Chu 
    chu11 at llnl.gov
       
    Thu Mar  6 08:45:23 PST 2008
    
    
  
On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 12:43 +0200, Tziporet Koren wrote:
> 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
Hey Tziporet,
If the distros have no issue with it, then that's fine.  I'm concerned
they will change it b/c of their conventions, leading to different init
scripts in different distros.
Al
> Tziporet
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