On 29/09/2002 Joey Hess wrote: > No, there is no good way for a postinst script to tell if it is being > run as reconfiguration. I don't really want to promote the hack that > lets postinst scripts detect that. Mh, I think dpkg-reconfigure should be patched, not dh_installinit. dpkg-reconfigure could check (with pidof) if the daemon is running, if not start, and if it runs, restart. That would be the simplest solution. bye mejo