retitle 164471 update-rc.d prints unnecessary warnings
severity 164471 minor
thanks
I previously wrote that update-rc.d does not print superfluous messages.
However, I overlooked one.
$ sudo update-rc.d -f foo11 remove > /dev/null
update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/foo11 exists during rc.d purge (continuing)
$ sudo update-rc.d -f foo11 remove > /dev/null
update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/foo11 exists during rc.d purge (continuing)
$
When the -f option is given, this warning message should not be
printed. The message just encourages maintainers to redirect
stderr to /dev/null.
As for the the normal output to stdout... I don't see why there needs
to be an option to turn it off entirely. Redirecting stdout to
/dev/null seems like a reasonable way to eliminate update-rc.d's
normal messages. Perhaps it would be nice to have a '-q' option
that switched off the listing of the symlinks created, leaving
just:
Added system startup for /etc/init.d/foo.
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Thomas
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