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Re: [bug] Restarting Daemons on package install/upgrade.



Karl M. Hegbloom writes:
> Even though I have removed the symlink to it from the runlevel directory,
> and it's not started during boot or runlevel change, when I run
> `adduser', it starts the `nscd'.

Looks like /etc/init.d/skeleton and therefor most of the scripts in
/etc/init.d suffer from the same bug.  It seems to me that 'restart' and
'reload' should test the exit status of 'start-stop-daemon --start' and
exit if it failed.  As it is they just run 'start-stop-daemon --start'
anyway.
-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin


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