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Re: Bug#426877: Clarify what "sensible behaviour" is for init scripts



"\"Iñaki" Baz Castillo" <ibc@aliax.net> writes:

> Opssss, sorry, I meant that "lighttpd DOESN'T use LSB specs but Debian
> specs".
>
> You say that "it's not a sensible behaviour to fail when asked to start
> a service that is already running" but this is the default behaviour of
> Debian init scripts (dince --oknodo is optional and of course not always
> used).

Note that /etc/init.d/skeleton, on which many init scripts in Debian are
based, handles this case correctly without using --oknodo.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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