[Frédéric Brière] > Following the insserv "flipping of the switch" last week, I noticed that > several init scripts on my system were lacking a dependency on $syslog. > (The debhelper sample init script is lacking such a dependency, and I > suspect many maintainers copied it w/o too much thought.)
Right. Good that you discovered this now. :) > Before filing bug reports, I'd like to know whether $syslog should > be a Required-Start or a Should-Start. While most init scripts (and > the example on wiki.debian.org) specify the former, some scripts opt > for the latter, which seems to make sense given how packages > typically don't depend on system-log-daemon anyway. Is there a > definitive answer on this matter? I would say, it depend on the package. In most cases, the program would work just fine without a syslog collector, and in these cases I believe it make most sense to use Should-Start. If it require a syslog server, it should use Required-Start. Technically it does not really matter with the current definition of $syslog (see /etc/insserv.conf). $syslog will be considered to be available even if no init.d script implement it. When you file bug reports, please usertag them, making them show up at <URL: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=initscripts-ng-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org >. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen _______________________________________________ initscripts-ng-devel mailing list initscripts-ng-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/initscripts-ng-devel
