On 2009-08-04 17:37 +0200, Frédéric Brière wrote: > 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.) > > 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 cannot claim to give a definitive answer, but I'm 99.9% sure that you have to use Should-Start if you do not depend on the other service to be installed. If you use Required-Start, insserv will choke if the required service is not available. See #538948¹ for instance. Sven ¹ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=538948 _______________________________________________ initscripts-ng-devel mailing list initscripts-ng-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/initscripts-ng-devel
