Branden Robinson wrote: > 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).
That's true of maintainer scripts, but not when a human is driving the machine and knows that they definitely want xdm started or stopped right now. For example, I have X installed inside a chroot. This chroot has a local policy-rc.d that prohibits any daemons being started, because I don't want port conflicts with systems outside the chroot to occur when I install or upgrade a package. So if I want to manually start xdm or some other daemon, invoke-rc.d is useless to me. Another example: I may be in single user mode, and want to start bind, so I can do some network administration. invoke-rc.d's default policy would not let it start. This kind of thing makes invoke-rc.d a poor choice of software for an admin who wants the compter to do what he tells it to do. It's name is also longer to type. ;-) -- see shy jo
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