Init scripts list and description

The Saltydog thesaltydog at gmail.com
Sun May 29 16:44:25 CDT 2005


Hi,
I am in the need to set up a module for my program (Boot-Up Manager)
which includes a full list of ubuntu's init scripts (script name -
short description (30 chars) - associated daemon). This is because
curently I am displaying the text description parsing the package
cache, but it is sometime unfriendly for common user.

i.e.
 makedev - Creates device files in /dev     
 alsa - ALSA driver configurastion files   

and so on. This is not friendly... The daemon name is useful to easily
detect if the service-daemon is running, as the init scripts are not
standard and not all of them have the daemon name in the code.

I could go thru writing this list by myself, but:

1 - I am not english
2 - It could be better if an ubuntu guy do that, for standard matters.

My question is: any chance to have this list done by someone of you?
Consider that once the list is done, I will provide the .pot file for
translation. Currently, national localizations of BUM have the list in
english, but I will prefer to put the scripts descriptions in the
local language (at least in the main "Summary" view).

Thank you all for cooperation.

Fabio



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