On Mon, 02 Apr 2001, Jean-Philippe Guérard wrote: > The Debian policy specifies (10.3.1) that maintainer scripts should not > assume whether or not a specific implementation of the handling of > init scripts is used. > > It provides a tool, update-rc.d, that has to be used to install or > remove an init script activation. > > However, it does not provide a standard way to check the current > status of an init script.
It will, soon. Please verify if invoke-rc.d --query (initscript) (action) in the accepted proposal #76868 is enough for your needs. > script (e.g. webmin-core, ksysv, rcconf, etc.) have to implement > checks for all possible implementations. They will be forbidden of doing so eventually, so please do check if the proposed functionality of #76868 is enough. -- "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
