Hi, Debian still provides a generic fallback for sysvinit scripts for packages not providing a systemd unit like sphinxsearch. The problem is that this fallback isn't aware of anything else like "stop" and "start", i.e. systemd will only call sphinxsearch's runscript with either "start" or "stop" argument.
Due to that, the only lines/function using $DODTIME are never executed. I would recommend the following fix: > - stop) > - echo -n "Stopping $DESC: " > - do_stop > - echo "$NAME." > - ;; > - force-stop) > + stop|force-stop) > echo -n "Forcefully stopping $DESC: " > do_force_stop > if ! running ; then While this sounds dangerous (always "force-stop" instead of just "stop") this shouldn't be a problem because "do_force_stop()" calls "kill -15" at the beginning, i.e. the same thing "do_stop()" would do using start-stop-daemon. The only difference is that "do_force_stop()" now waits $DODTIME and _only_ if the service is still running it will be forcefully killed (which should be safe at this stage or you should increase $DODTIME if this doesn't fit your needs). -- Regards, Thomas
