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Re: convention for putting a variable in a path...
Subject:Re: convention for putting a variable in a path... From:Lou Quillio <public -at- quillio -dot- com> To:Kimberly McClintock <kimberly -dot- mcclintock -at- openlogic -dot- com> Date:Fri, 07 Jul 2006 21:42:06 -0400
Kimberly McClintock wrote:
> I need to express the fact that, as a result of the install script, a
> service is added to each of the following files, 0 - 6: rc0.d, rc1.d
> etc.
This is a techcomm problem that's solved by specificity. Just say
what you did where. Root needs to know what root did. Nobody else
should be interested.
As Sean Wheller points out, there's no general audience. So knock
this out at the periphery and get immediately back to the user-space
description, if that's your main thrust.
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