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Subject: dpkg: Configurable command line for daemons used with
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From: "R.Ramkumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization: Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 16:35:38 +0530
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.13.11
Severity: wishlist
Currently, a change in the command line given as the --exec argument for
start-stop-daemon within /etc/init.d/ scripts requires the user to edit the
init script itself. For example, if I want to run smbd as `schedtool -B smbd`,
in order to preserve my system resources, I would have to change the
/etc/init.d/samba script. Now, this is not a good thing to do as the init
scripts in many cases do much work, and being a config file, changes will not
preserved across upgrades, and the user cannot make use of possible enhancements
to the init script. An alternative would be to provide each start-stop-daemon
a 'tag name' and a default command line for the exec. start-stop-daemon then can
look up a global config file and check if the user has chosen to override the
command name for the given tag, and behave appropriately.
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Subject: Re: Bug#326724: dpkg: Configurable command line for daemons used with
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Hi,
On Mon 05 Sep 2005 16:35:38 +0530, R. Ramkumar wrote:
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.13.11
> Severity: wishlist
> Currently, a change in the command line given as the --exec argument for
> start-stop-daemon within /etc/init.d/ scripts requires the user to edit
> the init script itself. For example, if I want to run smbd as
> `schedtool -B smbd`, in order to preserve my system resources, I would
> have to change the /etc/init.d/samba script.
Right, your options are, changing the init script, ask the maintainers of
such package to provide a configurable option in a file under /etc/default/,
or ask them to change the default (asking the maintainers only if it really
makes sense, not only because it's useful in a small particular case).
> Now, this is not a good thing to do as the init scripts in many cases do
> much work,
I don't see the relation between doing much work and modifying the file to
add an option.
> and being a config file, changes will not preserved across upgrades,
> and the user cannot make use of possible enhancements to the init script.
Err, being a config file means that the changes should be preserved on
upgrades.
> An alternative would be to provide each start-stop-daemon a 'tag name' and
> a default command line for the exec. start-stop-daemon then can look up a
> global config file and check if the user has chosen to override the
> command name for the given tag, and behave appropriately.
I think that's a unneeded overcomplication.
Closing this non-bug.
regards,
guillem
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