At 2:32 PM +0200 7/31/04, Oliver Eikemeier wrote: >Garance A Drosihn wrote: > >>> > As stated above: everything users did before will >>> > continue to work. >>> >>>Except of course, disabling scripts by renaming them :) >> >>I seem to remember that the safe way to disable scripts was >>to change the permissions on them so they were not executable. >>This was considered better than renaming them, because the >>file remained at the location it was installed at. This >>meant it would still be removed if the package was removed, >>for instance. >> >>Is that no longer true? > >No, that is probably the best solution. But a) [...] >It will be not easy, and error-prone to hunt all those instances >down. Of course it's doable, and would be somewhat `cleaner', but >I believe it's better when we keep the previously documented >behaviour as far as possible. That is okay by me. I was mainly wondering if it still true that a person can disable a new-style script by changing the permissions on it, after the script has been installed. Just curious. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad_at_gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad_at_freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih_at_rpi.eduReceived on Sat Jul 31 2004 - 15:44:06 UTC
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