Package: initscripts Version: 2.86.ds1-38 Severity: normal
-- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-xen-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages initscripts depends on: ii debianut 2.20.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii e2fsprog 1.39+1.40-WIP-2007.04.07+dfsg-2 ext2 file system utilities and lib ii libc6 2.5-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.1-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii mount 2.12r-19 Tools for mounting and manipulatin ii sysvinit 2.86.ds1-38 System-V-like utilities Versions of packages initscripts recommends: ii psmisc 22.5-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy -- no debconf information This bug is related to #426877: "dpkg: Option "--oknodo" should be the default behaviour for "start-stop-daemon" (LSB specs)" http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=426877 Acording to the LSB specifications for init scripts [1]: "For all other init-script actions, the init script shall return an exit status of zero if the action was successful. Otherwise, the exit status shall be non-zero, as defined below. In addition to straightforward success, the following situations are also to be considered successful: - Restarting a service (instead of reloading it) with the force-reload argument - Running start on a service already running - Running stop on a service already stopped or not running - Running restart on a service already stopped or not running - Running try-restart on a service already stopped or not running" But the /etc/init.d/skeleton says: do_start() { # Return # 0 if daemon has been started # 1 if daemon was already running # 2 if daemon could not be started do_stop() { # Return # 0 if daemon has been stopped # 1 if daemon was already stopped # 2 if daemon could not be stopped # other if a failure occurred They should return 0 when "start" even if the service was already running and return 0 when stoping it even it was already stopped. I think the policy should change to be LSB compliant: - "skeleton" script should incite the LSB behaviour. - "start-stop-daemon" should use "--oknodo" but default (see bug http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=426877). - A lot of services in Debian not using skeleton or start-stop-daemon should make correct the return values according to LSB specs. [1] LSB specifications about init script actions: http://www.linux-foundation.org/spec/refspecs/LSB_3.0.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/iniscrptact.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
