Re: Service stopping in prerm considered harmful
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh dijo [Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 07:44:02PM -0300]:
> > >> For the nth time, I have a package that dpkg is unable to remove because
> > >> it tries to stop a service that either is already stopped (I didn't want
> >
> > > For the nth time squared, an initscript MUST NOT FAIL to stop an already
> > > stopped service.
> >
> > How is it supposed to do that? The service isn't running, so can't be
> > stopped, therefore the script (if called to stop it) can only fail to stop
> > it...
> >
> > ITYM "must not fail if the service is already stopped".
>
> Well, whatever suits your fancy that results in a return status of 0
> should the script return with the service stopped (regardless of the
> script needing to do something or not to archieve that stopped status)
> :-)
Umh... Well, if the init script detects the service is still running
after it tried to stop it, _then_ it can return failure
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