Re: update-rc.d and rare start/stop runlevels

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

onsdag den 26 januari 2011 klockan 16:59 skrev Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. detta:
> In <[🔎] 20110126222650.GA26042@mea.homelinux.org>, Mats Erik Andersson wrote:
> >I am packaging `downtimed`, a daemon for the recording of
> >system downtimes. Taking its purpose into account the obvious
> >start and stop runlevels are:
> >
> >    Default-Start :  S
> >    Default-Stop  :  0 6
> >
> >since the daemon should be running as long as ever possible.
> >
> >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?
> 
> How are you calling update-rc.d?  These warning messages indicate to me that 
> update-rc.d is complaining that you've asked it to install S* links in 
> rc{2,3,4,5}.d and K* links in rc{0,1,6}.d but that the init script expects 
> something different, namely what you've listed in the script.

It is done in the postinst script, automatically created by debhelper:

     update-rc.d downtimed defaults >/dev/null

I have not manipulated that part. Should I craft a suitable override_dh_*
to achive the correct scripting?


Regards,
  Mats Erik Andersson