On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 10:05:07PM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 03:49:15PM +0100, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > > Such symlink was created by an upgrade of the package initscripts on a > > system running Debian/Squeeze. > > > > > > Here is the relevant part: > > > > > > $ grep -C3 /etc/nologin sysvinit-2.88dsf/debian/initscripts.postinst > > # Set up nologin symlink so that dynamic-login-disabling will work > > # (when DELAYLOGIN is set to "yes") > > # > > if [ ! -L /etc/nologin ] && [ ! -e /etc/nologin ] > > then > > rm -f /var/lib/initscripts/nologin > > ln -s /var/lib/initscripts/nologin /etc/nologin > > fi > > > > I don't know why the postinst script does that. Can somebody explain? > > Looking at the history in git, this was done for the migration > of /etc/nologin to /var/lib/initscripts/nologin; I presume at > least. It would have been nicer to have a version check here. > > Unless there's a reason for keeping it (and I can't see one > with a short investigation), I think this logic may be safely > removed. It might be a bit late to do this for wheezy, but > definitely fixable for jessie.
Looking at this a bit more closely, this should probably be moved to /run/nologin, since it's the last writable filesystem and unlike /etc and /var/lib/initscripts, will be present and writable until the system is halted. shutdown(8) also hardcodes /etc/nologin, and this should also be switched to use /run/nologin. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 _______________________________________________ Pkg-sysvinit-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-sysvinit-devel
