On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Michael Meskes wrote: > In quota.postinst rpc.quotad is started using start-stop-daemon. This works
Don't, please. This will be forbidden in the future (right now this is ok), you should use the /etc/init.d interface. If you need extra functionality, you should request the maintainer of the package with the /etc/init.d script to add it, and use that. > as longs as I know the package. Now it doesn't anymore. That is the daemon > is correctly started but quota.postinst does not return anymore. It remains > defunc until I kill rpc.rquotad. As soon as I comment out the line > . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule > all works well again. Ah, it looks like you need to have a db_stop BEFORE you call start-stop-daemon or the initscript. Looks like the daemon is dumb and does not close all open descriptors, creates a new session id, etc... -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
