Re: policy on start-stop-daemon
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 02:38:25PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Russell Coker wrote:
> > Either start-stop-daemon should not be called from cron, or if it is
> > called from cron then it should be called with a special parameter
> > to indicate that it is being run from cron.
>
> Not allowing start-stop-daemon to be used in cron is broken. In fact
> policy seems to move towards demanding to use /etc/init.d scripts
> everywhere instead of using start-stop-daemon.
man-db doesn't use start-stop-daemon in a manner that can sensibly be
moved into an init script, but as a convenient means of starting a
process as a different user without polluting system logs with useless
"su root-man" entries. See #101892.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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