On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:26:25AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[email protected]> writes: > > > NO. invoke-rc.d is for package maintainer script use. It shouldn't be > > > used > > > anywhere else. It is bad enough the amount of crap that happens at > > > shutdown > > > because people started misusing it inside ifup/ifdown.d, etc.
The manpage of invoke-rc.d does not contain this information. It only says that "All access to the init scripts by Debian packages' maintainer scripts should be done through invoke-rc.d." and does not say that it should not be used outside a maintainer script. Additionally, I see a lot of use cases where it would be useful to re(load|start) a service iff it should be running in the current runlevel. invoke-rc.d offers a way to elegantly do this, which is a reason for it being (ab)used outside of maintainer scripts. > > Btw, after installing gnome I now get daily email from my > > /etc/policy-rc.d since /etc/cron.d/anacron uses invoke-rc.d: > > > > 30 7 * * * root test -x /etc/init.d/anacron && > > /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d anacron start >/dev/null > > > > Is this a bug in anacron? Surely this is not a maintainer script? > > It looks fishy as all heck, yes. Looks like both the initscript AND > invoke-rc.d are being abused at first glance. What should the package be doing instead? Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 31958061 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 31958062 _______________________________________________ Pkg-sysvinit-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-sysvinit-devel
