Package: dpkg Version: 1.10.21 Severity: wishlist If you try to start a daemon using start-stop-daemon and the daemon is already running then start-stop-daemon returns 1.
If the daemon is not already running and start-stop-daemon starts an instance of it, and the instance exits with status 1, then start-stop-daemon again returns 1. I would like to be able to distinguish between these cases. What would help would be an option that sets the value that is returned when the daemon is already running. A value could then be chosen that the daemon itself never returns. The return value can already be changed (to 0) using the "--oknodo" option. What we need is a "--nodostatus=VAL" option. "--oknodo" would thus be equivalent to "--nodostatus=0". -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (700, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.25 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii dselect 1.10.21 a user tool to manage Debian packa ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an -- no debconf information
