Re: policy on start-stop-daemon
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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
It cannot be moved to a "cron-cleanup" target on /etc/init.d? It certainly
would not be possible to have it sensibly in the start or stop targets,
but...
(not that I am suggesting man-db to do so. There is no reason for that, at
least none right now).
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