Re: Can somebody explain the benefits of .d directories

From	bw <bwtnguy@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Can somebody explain the benefits of .d directories
Date	2017-11-28 00:50 +0100
Message-ID	<uQBjX-3D1-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References	<uQA4x-2Vp-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
Organization	linux.* mail to news gateway

Show all headers | View raw

On Mon, 27 Nov 2017, Hans-Peter wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 

How's it going?

> 
> I am a tech writer, as part of my job I also have to maintain a number of 
> servers, various UNIX systems. Yes, I am a dev as well ....
<snip>> 
> Some admins where I work are happy to rename the files in the ".d" directory to 
their liking ...a silly and futile attempt to stop me from pruning the repos the 
servers use ...hmmmm
> 

Not sure what you want to do, how many admins does it take to admin? If 
they are doing a bad job, you should try to get them fired.  It sounds 
like they are on top of things, though?

It was a good post, I agreed with the first reply, but I would make the 
explanation simpler: "Using .d folders is cool!"

Back to linux.debian.user | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Can somebody explain the benefits of .d directories Hans-Peter <thecarpy@aim.com> - 2017-11-27 23:30 +0100
  Re: Can somebody explain the benefits of .d directories Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2017-11-27 23:50 +0100
  Re: Can somebody explain the benefits of .d directories Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2017-11-27 23:50 +0100
    Re: Can somebody explain the benefits of .d directories Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-11-28 07:00 +0100
  Re: Can somebody explain the benefits of .d directories Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org> - 2017-11-28 00:00 +0100
  Re: Can somebody explain the benefits of .d directories bw <bwtnguy@yahoo.com> - 2017-11-28 00:50 +0100

csiph-web