Re: update-rc.d and rare start/stop runlevels
On 2011-01-27 10:03 +0100, Mats Erik Andersson wrote:
> onsdag den 26 januari 2011 klockan 16:06 skrev Russ Allbery detta:
>> Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson@gisladisker.se> writes:
>>
>> > However, update-rc.d disagrees vividly with me (and possibly
>> > also insserv), since it prefers to call aloud
>>
>> > update-rc.d: warning: downtimed start runlevel arguments (2 3 4 5)
>> > do not match LSB Default-Start values (S)
>> > update-rc.d: warning: downtimed stop runlevel arguments (0 1 6)
>> > do not match LSB Default-Stop values (0 6)
>>
>> > Am I in error, or is there a proper way of silencing these
>> > warning messages?
>>
>> That warning message means that the existing symlinks on your system do
>> not match what you asked the package to create. They're intentional to
>> inform the local system administrator that the package wants a different
>> set of symlinks and they may want to update theirs. (The symlinks are
>> considered local configuration, so the package doesn't update them
>> automatically.)
>>
>> If you had never installed the package before, I'm fairly sure you
>> wouldn't get that message.
>
> That cannot be the answer, since the package is in this very moment
> being developed to satify an ITP, thus is completely new. On the
> other hand,
>
> $ find /etc -type l -name \*downtimed
>
> /etc/rc0.d/K01downtimed
> /etc/rcS.d/S20downtimed
> /etc/rc6.d/K01downtimed
>
> proves that the intended links have been successfully created,
> in spite of the aforementioned warnings from update-rc.d.
Yes. On systems with legacy boot order the result would have been
different, though.
Sven
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