[clue-tech] upstart

[Jed S. Baer]

On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:42:49 +0000
dennisjperkins at comcast.net wrote:

> > Well, back when I dinked around an discovered where/how to change
> > "media" to "mnt", I marvelled at the complexity of the config files.
> > I don't remember if it was HAL or udev -- I think udev. But the move
> > away from things like rc files that were pretty easy to
> > read/understand is something that bothers me. Not sure how I'd do it
> > differently, but the old Unix norm of using a text editor to tweak
> > your configs is being slowly abandoned -- at least in some cases.
> > Sure, you can edit XML in vi, but figuring it out by reading it?
> > 
> > jed
> 
> You can do it in either place.  After doing it once in HAL, I don't
> think that's the place for it.  And I'm not sure udev is the right
> place either.  

Yeah, well, after I bit, like Michael, I decided it wasn't worth the
trouble to bother with. Did take a while to get my fingers un-used to
typing cd /mnt...

jed