Re: init scripts [was: If Not Systemd, then What?]

[iain@thargoid.co.uk]

> Show us where Debian is using the file shipped by upstream.

dpkg -l | grep xymon
ii  xymon-client                          4.3.17-4                       
        amd64        client for the Xymon network monitor
17:25:35 weezer:~/src/xymon-4.3.17$ diff /etc/init.d/xymon-client 
debian/xymon-client.init
3,4c3,4
< # xymon-client    This shell script takes care of starting and 
stopping
< #                 the xymon client.
---
> # xymonclient    This shell script takes care of starting and stopping
> #                the Xymon client.
19c19
< NAME=xymon-client
---
> NAME=xymonclient
29c29
< # Include xymon-client defaults if available
---
> # Include xymonclient defaults if available
43,48d42
<
<       if test "$TMPFSSIZE" && test -e /proc/mounts && ! grep -q 
/var/lib/xymon/tmp /proc/mounts; then
<               echo "Mounting tmpfs on /var/lib/xymon/tmp"
<               rm -f /var/lib/xymon/tmp/*
<               mount -t tmpfs -o"size=$TMPFSSIZE,mode=755,uid=$(id -u 
xymon)" tmpfs /var/lib/xymon/tmp
<       fi

wc -l /etc/init.d/xymon-client
109 /etc/init.d/xymon-client


So the xymon-client package uses the init script from upstream, with 
some modifications (naturally).

Cheers

Iain