hey sune, On 06/11/2009 Sune Vuorela wrote: > A bit ago, all display managers were providing x-display-manager in their lsb > headers in the initscripts. We were asked to remove that, as insserv was > unable to handle multiple scripts providing the same service. that sounds weird. i thought that this was the sole purpose of virtual facilities - to support several initscripts all providing similar services. ah, but wait. there seems to be a difference between providing a service inside the lsb headers and adding a virtual facility. see http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/DebianVirtualFacilities for details. > Why not fix that insserv stupidity instead of add further hacks on top ? in my eyes the proper fix in insserv would be to make all X-Interactive scripts start before the ones that provide x-display-manager, but as long as openvpn is the only initscript that is concerned, i'm fine with a X-Should-Start in the openvpn initscript as well. nevertheless, the x-display-manager virtual facility is required. > And is there a helper script to install insserv.conf.d things? i don't know about one. greetings, jonas
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