# this bug doesn't impede the ipv6 release goal tags = pending kthxbye Le 12/12/2011 à 16:49, Anders Jackson <[email protected]> écrivit : > Package: ramond > Version: 0.5-1 > Severity: normal > Tags: ipv6 > > Dear Maintainer, when I tried to configure ramond, I created a > directory for config files and scripts (/etc/ramond/). > To use the config file /etc/ramond/ramonf.config, I changed the value > of RAMONDCONFIG in /etc/default/ramond according to the documentation > there. > > But when I tried to start ramond, I didn't got any errors on the > command line (used services and invoke-rc.d), except that status told > me that ramond wasn't running: > > $ sudo service ramond status > ramond is not running ... failed! > $ > > and this message in /var/log/syslog: > > Dec 12 14:55:33 my-computer ramond: Syntax error in configuration file > > When making a symbolic link from /etc/ramond/ramond.conf to > /etc/ramond.conf, ramond started to work. > > When I look into /etc/init.d/ramond, I can't see that the script set > DAEMON_ARGS to "-c $RAMONDCONF", which would have solved this problem. > > Hope this information is enough to fix this error when configure ramond.
Hi, Thanks for your thorough report, and for your interest in ramond! It seems that I indeed forgot to set DAEMON_ARGS to something meaningful when I wrote the init script. You'll find attached an updated init script. I'll try to get an updated package uploaded soon. Cheers, -- Nicolas Dandrimont
#!/bin/sh ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: ramond # Required-Start: $network $local_fs $remote_fs # Required-Stop: $network $remote_fs # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 # Short-Description: Router Advertisement MONitoring Daemon # Description: ramond is a daemon program monitoring IPv6 # router advertisement packets. ### END INIT INFO # Author: Nicolas Dandrimont <[email protected]> # PATH should only include /usr/* if it runs after the mountnfs.sh script PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin DESC="IPv6 RA monitoring Daemon" # Introduce a short description here NAME=ramond # Introduce the short server's name here DAEMON=/usr/sbin/ramond # Introduce the server's location here DAEMON_ARGS="" # Arguments to run the daemon with PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME # Exit if the package is not installed [ -x $DAEMON ] || exit 0 # Read configuration variable file if it is present [ -r /etc/default/$NAME ] && . /etc/default/$NAME # Load the VERBOSE setting and other rcS variables . /lib/init/vars.sh # Define LSB log_* functions. # Depend on lsb-base (>= 3.0-6) to ensure that this file is present. . /lib/lsb/init-functions [ "x$RAMONDCONFIG" = "x" ] && RAMONDCONFIG=/etc/ramond.conf [ "x$DAEMON_ARGS" = "x" ] && DAEMON_ARGS="-c $RAMONDCONFIG" # # Function that starts the daemon/service # do_start() { if [ ! -r $RAMONDCONFIG ]; then log_failure_msg "ramond config file $RAMONDCONFIG doesn't exist; set the right path to it in /etc/default/$NAME" return 2 fi # Return # 0 if daemon has been started # 1 if daemon was already running # 2 if daemon could not be started start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON --test > /dev/null \ || return 1 start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON -- \ $DAEMON_ARGS \ || return 2 # Add code here, if necessary, that waits for the process to be ready # to handle requests from services started subsequently which depend # on this one. As a last resort, sleep for some time. } # # Function that stops the daemon/service # do_stop() { # Return # 0 if daemon has been stopped # 1 if daemon was already stopped # 2 if daemon could not be stopped # other if a failure occurred start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --retry=TERM/30/KILL/5 --pidfile $PIDFILE --name $NAME RETVAL="$?" [ "$RETVAL" = 2 ] && return 2 # Wait for children to finish too if this is a daemon that forks # and if the daemon is only ever run from this initscript. # If the above conditions are not satisfied then add some other code # that waits for the process to drop all resources that could be # needed by services started subsequently. A last resort is to # sleep for some time. start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --retry=0/30/KILL/5 --exec $DAEMON [ "$?" = 2 ] && return 2 # Many daemons don't delete their pidfiles when they exit. rm -f $PIDFILE return "$RETVAL" } # # Function that sends a SIGHUP to the daemon/service # do_reload() { # # If the daemon can reload its configuration without # restarting (for example, when it is sent a SIGHUP), # then implement that here. # start-stop-daemon --stop --signal 1 --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --name $NAME return 0 } case "$1" in start) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC " "$NAME" do_start case "$?" in 0|1) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 0 ;; 2) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 1 ;; esac ;; stop) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DESC" "$NAME" do_stop case "$?" in 0|1) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 0 ;; 2) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 1 ;; esac ;; status) status_of_proc "$DAEMON" "$NAME" && exit 0 || exit $? ;; #reload|force-reload) # # If do_reload() is not implemented then leave this commented out # and leave 'force-reload' as an alias for 'restart'. # #log_daemon_msg "Reloading $DESC" "$NAME" #do_reload #log_end_msg $? #;; restart|force-reload) # # If the "reload" option is implemented then remove the # 'force-reload' alias # log_daemon_msg "Restarting $DESC" "$NAME" do_stop case "$?" in 0|1) do_start case "$?" in 0) log_end_msg 0 ;; 1) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Old process is still running *) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Failed to start esac ;; *) # Failed to stop log_end_msg 1 ;; esac ;; *) #echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}" >&2 echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|status|restart|force-reload}" >&2 exit 3 ;; esac :
