Bug#529624: netbase: networking should not be stopped on reboot or halt
Does anybody see any downsides to this?
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From: Teodor <mteodor@gmail.com>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: Bug#529624: netbase: networking should not be stopped on reboot or
halt
Package: netbase
Version: 4.34
Severity: important
Tags: patch
The current LSB header in the /etc/init.d/networking script contains:
# Default-Stop: 0 6
The networking should not be stopped at reboot or poweroff/halt since some software depends on the networking to work until the host is down. One example is 'apcupsd' and 'nut' software which needs to be able to detect on slaves the power status reported by the master host which is actually connected to the UPS. If the networking is stopped than the slaves cannot connect to the remote daemon even if the UPS daemon is still working on the master.
The patch to achieve this is quite simple:
--- /etc/init.d/networking 2008-07-26 02:02:15.000000000 +0300
+++ /etc/init.d/networking_new 2009-05-20 18:45:36.000000000 +0300
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
# Required-Start: mountkernfs ifupdown $local_fs
# Required-Stop: ifupdown $local_fs
# Default-Start: S
-# Default-Stop: 0 6
+# Default-Stop:
# Short-Description: Raise network interfaces.
### END INIT INFO
Thanks
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages netbase depends on:
ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
Versions of packages netbase recommends:
ii ifupdown 0.6.8+nmu1 high level tools to configure netw
netbase suggests no packages.
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ciao,
Marco
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