On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Darren Salt wrote: > I demand that Henrique de Moraes Holschuh may or may not have written... > > On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Pierre THIERRY wrote: > >> For the nth time, I have a package that dpkg is unable to remove because > >> it tries to stop a service that either is already stopped (I didn't want > > > For the nth time squared, an initscript MUST NOT FAIL to stop an already > > stopped service. > > How is it supposed to do that? The service isn't running, so can't be > stopped, therefore the script (if called to stop it) can only fail to stop > it... > > ITYM "must not fail if the service is already stopped".
Well, whatever suits your fancy that results in a return status of 0 should the script return with the service stopped (regardless of the script needing to do something or not to archieve that stopped status) :-) -- "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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
