You (Helmut Geyer) wrote: > Hi! > > There is a small problem with the new sysvinit (2.58-1) suite. Once you have > installed it, you can't shutdown/reboot/halt the system as these use a > different way of communicating than the 2.57* init (a FIFO, no longer a file). > So please make copies of the old init,shutdown, halt and reboot programs and > reboot right after installing sysvinit 2.58. After rebooting, you can > delete the old files.
Allright, I see what happened. The 0.93R6 sysvinit-2.57b used /var/log/initrunlevel as the file to communicate with init. The debian-1.0 version of sysvinit-2.57b changed this to /etc/initrunlvl (as the default was in the original source). sysvinit-2.58 can and will use /etc/initrunlvl as a fallback when the communication through the named pipe fails, but there is a problem now: _which_ file should it use for fallback ? The one from 0.93R6 or the one from 1.0 ? I guess it should be /var/log/initrunlvl, as in 0.93R6, so that people can upgrade from 0.93R6. It will only make it problematic for people upgrading from 1.0 but oh well. I'll have to make a sysvinit-2.58-2 today in that case. Comments, anyone? -- Miquel van | Cistron Internet Services -- Alphen aan den Rijn. Smoorenburg, | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cistron.nl/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel: +31-172-419445 (Voice) 430979 (Fax) 442580 (Data)
