Yesterday, the lighttpd instance that I run on my workstation waseffectively down for about twelve hours; while the daemon was running,it was using the wrong configuration file and so it wasn't reallyserving anything. In turn, this happened because I installed a lighttpdpackage update, and as part of the post-update actions the package did' /etc/init.d/lighttpd condrestart '.

In theory, conditional restart in an init.d script will only restartthings if the init script has started

We're in the process of a slow conversion from maintaining files withRCS to mostly keeping them in Mercurial repositories,which has wound up making me think about how we want to structure themand which of our existing directory areas are easy to convert. As aresult of this, I have an observation: modern whole-directory VCSeschange how sysadmins want to lay out files and directories.

In the old days of single-file version control, it made perfect sense togroup files together in directories by function or