> If you're going to do this, might it be better to test for the existence of the > typical obj, journal, epoch directories rather than mandate the existence of a > magic file with a long name and an ugly underscore? That file should be a 'unique marker'. I can't see why it is 'magic' or 'ugly' (why is an underscore ugly?) > However, it still feels like you should just be doing > > [ -d /store/journal ] && sheep /store > > in your init scripts rather Those files depends on the used storage backend, so you can't use them. Also, I want to start 'sheep' without using /etc/init.d/ script, so checks there are quite useless. - Dietmar |