On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 12:45:23PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > Package: discover1 > Version: 1.7.7 > Severity: wishlist > > To be able to check boot script order, and also to be able to start > boot scripts in parallel, it is important to know the dependencies of > the various boot scripts. The Linux Software Base specifies a init.d > header file format useful for this purpose, and adding such header to > the init.d scripts would make it possible for me to use this > information to check the current sequence and speed up the debian > boot. > > <URL:http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_2.1.0/LSB-generic/LSB-generic/initscrcomconv.html> > documents the LSB header format. Some debian notes are available from > <URL:http://wiki.debian.org/?LSBInitScripts>. > > Here is a proposed dependency header to document the dependencies of > discover. It is slightly tested using the insserv package and the new > parallell booting support in sysvinit. > > ### BEGIN INIT INFO > # Provides: discover > # Required-Start: mountvirtfs checkroot $local_fs What's $local_fs? If these are local filesystems other than root, they shouldn't be needed, because we moved all files of discover out of /var and /usr to make it work if these are on network filesystems. > # Required-Stop: > # Default-Start: S 1 2 3 4 5 > # Default-Stop: 0 6 > ### END INIT INFO Are the ### BEGIN ... and ### END ... tags significant or can they be omitted? Gaudenz -- Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett ~
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