Package: ntop
Version: 2:3.0-5
Severity: normal

First of all: This might be considered a wishlist bug, but since LSB
compliance is a release goal for Etch, I leave it at Severity normale.

Now to the bug itself:

/etc/init.d/ntop reload

Doesn't reload but instead restarts. This is not LSB conforming.
According to LSB, the script should instead return error code "3"
(feature not implemented), see bottom of the LSB 20.2 Init Script
Actions at:

http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_3.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/iniscrptact.html

The list of action on the top of that page says about the reload action:

reload  cause the configuration of the service to be reloaded without
        actually stopping and restarting the service

So the current behaviour of ntop's init script is breaking LSB rules and
(what's more IMHO) is acting differently from what users would expect.
Especially since ntop doesn't keep collected data over restarts.

Regards,
Sven

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (400, 'experimental'), (90, 'testing'), (50, 
'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.12-incase
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages ntop depends on:
ii  debconf               1.4.30.13          Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libfreetype6          2.1.7-2.5          FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgd2-xpm            2.0.33-1.1         GD Graphics Library version 2
ii  libgdbm3              1.8.3-2            GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii  libjpeg62             6b-10              The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libpcap0.7            0.7.2-7            System interface for user-level pa
ii  libpng12-0            1.2.8rel-1         PNG library - runtime
ii  libssl0.9.7           0.9.7e-3sarge1     SSL shared libraries
ii  zlib1g                1:1.2.2-4.sarge.2  compression library - runtime

ntop recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
* ntop/user: ntop
* ntop/interfaces: eth1


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