Re: Checking init.d script for policy compliance.

[Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net>]

On 02-Apr-03, 08:55 (CST), Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr> wrote: 
> Wrong restart behavior when not running:
> atd cron klogd syslogd *ntpd

Uh, sorry, what? I don't know about the others, but both cron and atd do
exactly the right thing: start the daemon. If you want the state to not
change, you should use invoke-rc.d. Please read Debian Policy 10.3.2.

Regards,
Steve

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