Re: downtimed and start-stop-daemon.

[Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson@gisladisker.se>]

tisdag den  3 april 2012 klockan 02:43 skrev Samuel Thibault detta:
> > I now find that "invoke-rc.d" is not handling the daemonisation
> > properly: a restart will leave the old daemon running, but still start
> > a new instance.  Is there some knowledge I should acquire on this
> > matter?
> 
> IIRC it's simply a yet-not-investigated bug somewhere in what
> invoke-rc.d uses.

One reason is that "invoke-rc.d" cannot handle the outcome

  $ /sbin/runlevel
  unknown

with GNU/Hurd. That disability is known to relate to #497664,
which the sysvinit maintainers are notoriously ignoring.

Best regards,
  Mats E A