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Subject: there is no standard way to check if an init script is installed
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Package: debian-policy
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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.
Administation packages that need to know the situation of an init
script (e.g. webmin-core, ksysv, rcconf, etc.) have to implement
checks for all possible implementations.
Most of them assume the symlink scheme is used.
The reasonnable solution would seem to be to offer an
additionnal standard tool :
check-rc.d
that would take as a parameter an init script, and provide
information on the current situation of the script.
For example :
# check-rc.d installed /etc/init.d/apache && echo true
true
# check-rc.d startstop /etc/init.d/apache
STOP 0 20
STOP 1 20
START 3 95
START 4 95
START 5 95
STOP 6 20
-- System Information
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Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 08:58:51 +0100
From: Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Bug#92589: there is no standard way to check if an init script is
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On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 11:10:42PM +0200, Jean-Philippe Gu?rard wrote:
> I see your point. You are right. This is not the way to go to solve
> this issue.
>
> Please close this request.
Done.
Julian
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