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Re: should an init-script print output, if verbose is set to no in /etc/default/rcS or by /lib/init/vars.sh?



Hi

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:31:51 +0200
Evgeni Golov <sargentd@die-welt.net> wrote:

> an user reported in #419413, that my init-script does no output, if
> VERBOSE is set to no. He also gave examples (ssh, openbsd-initd, samba)
> of packages, who ignore the verbose-setting and do some output with
> "echo" or "log_*" from lsb-base, what he thinks is "normal".
> But there are also packages who act exactly as /etc/init.d/skeleton
> and call log_* only if VERBOSE!=no.
> 
> The Debian policy (9.3, 9.4) does not really say, that a init-script
> MUST have output, but only defines how the output should look like and
> refers to skeleton for the usage.

And skeleton currently prints something only when VERBOSE!=no...

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