Henrique de Moraes Holschuh dijo [Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 07:44:02PM -0300]: > > >> 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) > :-)
Umh... Well, if the init script detects the service is still running after it tried to stop it, _then_ it can return failure Greetings -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
