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This code in hwconf.c if (x==0) { /* This is a sick and gross hack. */ fd=open("/tmp/ranXconfig",O_CREAT|O_EXCL,0644); if (fd!=-1) close(fd); } and the corrosponding test in /etc/rc.d/init.d # However, if they did configure X and want runlevel 5, let's # switch to it... if [ -f /tmp/ranXconfig ]; then grep -q "^id:5:initdefault:" /etc/inittab && telinit 5 fi Can allow a user to force a system into run-level 5, even if the sys-admin selected level 3 at bootup. (Assuming that run-level 5 is the default) This is done by a simple 'touch /tmp/ranXconfig', and will confuse the inexpreinced admin no end. (Tested on RH 7, looks like it will work on 6.2) Wouldn't it be better to use an environemnt variable or the like to convay this instruction? (Or at least check that root put the file there in the first place)
Environment variables would be tricky; you can't really populate the environment of the parent script. The simplest solution is to change it to write somewhere safer (say, /var/run.) Will be fixed in kudzu-0.80-1.