Package: nsd Version: 4.1.0-3 When the NSD init script nsd.init.d can not find the NSD binary in $DAEMON, it fails silently and exits returning 0 (success). Here is a transcript:
root@ns:/etc/init.d# ./nsd start ; echo $? 0 I've attached a patch that makes the init script return something other than success, and also to log the failure to stderr. Here is a transcript with the patch applied: root@ns:/etc/init.d# ./nsd start ; echo $? /etc/init.d/nsd: exiting as unable to find the NSD daemon at /usr/sbin/nsd 2
diff --git a/debian/nsd.init.d b/debian/nsd.init.d index c96ac99..f65df20 100644 --- a/debian/nsd.init.d +++ b/debian/nsd.init.d @@ -22,8 +22,11 @@ SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/nsd NSDC=/usr/sbin/nsd-control -# Exit if the package is not installed -[ -x $DAEMON ] || exit 0 +# Exit loudly if the package is not installed +if [ ! -x $DAEMON ]; then + >&2 echo $SCRIPTNAME: exiting as unable to find the NSD daemon at $DAEMON + exit 2 +fi PIDFILE=$(nsd-checkconf -o pidfile $CONFFILE)
