On Feb 21, Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK. Are you sure that "&" is enough, or do we need to use > start-stop-daemon --background? It's enough.
> > since version 0.076-1 the correct way to check for the presence of udev > > has been "test -e /dev/.udev". > > You can remove the check for /dev/.udev.tdb which has not been useful > > since version 0.046-1. > > > So the complete test would be > > test -d /dev/.udevdb || test -e /dev/.udev > > ? Yes, if you want to support versions << 0.076-1. > When I used to switch back and forth between 2.4 and 2.6 kernels I found > that /dev/.udev.tdb or /dev/.udevdb was sometimes present even though the > kernel was a 2.4 one. The kernel version number check was a useful added > precaution. This was probably a bug of some very old package and should NEVER EVER happen (because it may cause udevd to delete devices from your static /dev). The udev init script even spits a warning for this, so please remove the extra check. Every other package only checks for the directory anyway. -- ciao, Marco
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