Quoting Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>: > File a serious bug against package Y. initscripts have to exit with a > successfull status if the daemon is already running. OK. As this package Y is not (yet) part of Debian, I just changed it: I added --oknodo to start-stop-daemon and check for $? -eq 0. Seems to work, thanks! Cheers, WB