Package: distcc
Version: 2.18.3-3
Severity: normal
current code in /etc/init.d/distcc reads:
case "$1" in
start)
should_start
echo -n "Starting $DESC: $NAME"
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile /var/run/$NAME.pid \
--chuid distccd \
--exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_ARGS $ALLOW $LISTENER
echo "."
;;
In case of failure, the "set -e" used previously terminates the command
and user does not get eny indictation in case of failure. This causes
assuming that the command succeeded:
# /etc/init.d/distcc start
<nothing>
only after couple of hours or days he may suspect that the service is not
up. Perhaps the code could be improved to that a message is displayed
in case of error. Something like (untested):
case "$1" in
start)
should_start
echo -n "Starting $DESC: $NAME"
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile /var/run/$NAME.pid \
--chuid distccd \
--exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_ARGS $ALLOW $LISTENER ||
{
code=$?
echo "$0: start failed with error code $code" >&2
exit $code
}
echo "."
;;
Similarly with other "stop|restart|force-reload"
-- Package-specific info:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)
Versions of packages distcc depends on:
ii adduser 3.67.2 Add and remove users and groups
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.58 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.3.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii netbase 4.22 Basic TCP/IP networking system
distcc recommends no packages.
-- debconf information excluded
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