On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 09:07:14AM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > > People shouldn't run "/etc/init.d/$SCRIPT" anymore; they should use > > "invoke-rc.d $SCRIPT" instead. > > > > There have been many threads on -devel about this. > > if they were inside flamewars than i didn't read it for sure ;)
IIRC, you generally want to use invoke-rc.d because it is cognizant of runlevel policy (i.e., start service $FOO in runlevel 3 but not runlevel 2, and so forth). > I fully agree that we can simply avoid any commit after 2004-02-13 and we > can consider safe everything before, for this release. If the s**t hits > the fan we will revert the changes.. too bad but hey.., it's life. I want to have a look anyway, but you're right -- if something slips through the cracks we can revert it. > > If you have any more questions or concerns about the pending changes, > > please let me know. Otherwise, if I have addressed your questions > > satisfactorily, give me the green light and I'll do the merge onto > > branches/4.3.0/sid. > > Apollo 13 this is Houston: you are ready to go! Apollo 13? Are you planning to strand me in orbit around the moon? :) -- G. Branden Robinson | That's the saving grace of humor: Debian GNU/Linux | if you fail, no one is laughing at [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- A. Whitney Brown
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