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Re: invoke-rc.d and rcS scripts



Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Andreas Metzler wrote:
[...]

Hello,
Thanks for giving a hint how to read it so that it makes
perfectly sense.

>> It is semi-documented:
>> |----invoke-rc.d(8)--------------------
>> | invoke-rc.d itself will only pay attention to the  current
>> | runlevel, and block any tries to start an init script in a
>> | runlevel it is not configured to  be  started  at. 
>> 
>> This is unclear, "not configured to be started at" has to be
>> read as "has been configured to be stopped".

> Not really.  The undefined states (no symlink at all) are also an issue.
[...]

One has to know that no link in this runlevel at all is an undefined
state for invoke-rc.d, while it makes perfect sense for the the
sysvinit rc-script.
                 cu andreas



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