[Asterisk-Dev] The Zaptel init scripts must die!

[Greg Boehnlein]

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:

> Ok, so maybe that's a little strong :-)
> 
> Is there any reason we keep these things around? Is there really any 
> value in not making the administrator use the existing module 
> loading/hotplug facilities offered by their distro? On the Gentoo and 
> Debian systems that I operate, it is ridiculously easy to list the 
> modules I want loaded at boot time (in 
> /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 and /etc/modules, respectively), and 
> on some systems using kernel module autoloading will load them without 
> even the need for that effort.
> 
> Let's take a poll from the developer community: are these scripts 
> providing any value? Are we just making it easy for people to not 
> actually understand what they are doing when they install Zaptel on a 
> modern distro?

Define "modern distro". ;)

The current init scripts are crap and should be deprecated. I've 
volunteered to re-write them and make them consistent w/ what I've done 
for the Asterisk init scripts, and break out init scripts into various, 
distro specific files. I've asked for comments on #asterisk-dev and gotten 
no real response.

The Init Scripts can provide value on a "modern distro" by verifying many 
things are correct BEFORE loading the modules. This can be used to spit 
out helpful error messages that will reduce newbie questions and 
streamline support.

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