Re: policy on start-stop-daemon
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 05:35:14PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 02:38:25PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > > 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...
Erm, well, that's why I said "sensibly". It isn't really an
initialization function, so I think shoehorning it into an initscript
would be a little odd. IMHO, anyway ...
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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