Re: policy on start-stop-daemon
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 04:50, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 03:23:58AM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
> > Running it with --cron would not skip any security checks or grant any
> > special access, it would merely mean "don't try to grant any extra access
> > if doing so requires asking for a password or other tty access".
>
> So what you really mean is --nointeractive? Is start-stop-daemon ever
> interactive?
Yes.
start-stop-daemon is interactive (in terms of having an active terminal)
whenever the sysadmin types "/etc/init.d/foo start" at the command line. It
is not interactive in any active way in the default Debian version, but for
my SE wrapper it is.
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