Petter Reinholdtsen wrote on 22/06/2007 16:27: > [Sven Mueller] > >>If we want to be able to generate LSB compliant sysv init scripts, the >>fields known to metainit should probably include "Provides" as well. >>After all, some daemons don't only provide their own name there, but >>also $named, $portmap or $syslog. > > Actually, this is a mistake. The provides line in individual scripts > should never use the the virtual facility names. The virtual > facilities are handled outside the init.d scripts. For insserv, it is > specified in /etc/insserv.conf.
Huh? Why shouldn't the init scripts be able to say: I provide portmap/syslog/named functionality? >>Or some other daemon's name (such as openbsd-inetd providing inetd). > > Yes, this is fine. Though the current check-initd-order script do not > handle scripts providing more than one facility.. If anything, I would have thought mentioning some other daemon's name was evil, but not mentioning one of the $* capabilities. cu, Sven
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