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Bug#265801: bootlogd stops too early



On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 01:45:18PM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> 
> On 2004.08.15 19:06, dean gaudet wrote:
> > On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> > 
> > > I'd say that's a bug in xdm, it should be at S95 or so.
> > 
> > there are other S99 scripts as well... on my systems i find:
> > 
> > S99fetchmail
> > S99rmnologin
> > S99stop-bootlogd
> > S99xdm
> > 
> > it's really only by luck that S99stop-bootlogd is almost last.  that's why
> > i suggested fixing bootlogd rather than trying to discover all the other
> > S99s and change them.
> 
> But that is what should be done. Policy says that if you use non-standard
> start/stop levels, you have to discuss that with the sysvinit maintainer.
> Nobody appears to do that. Bootlogd is part of sysvinit, so it's start/stop
> level has been discussed with the maintainer, so it is correct. All the
> others are incorrect.

I asked you *months* ago what sequence number you thought xdm should use,
and I got no reply.

  Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 20:17:26 -0500
  From: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
  To: sysvinit@packages.debian.org, control@bugs.debian.org
  Cc: 226048@bugs.debian.org
  Subject: Re: Processed: Re: Bug#226048: sysvinit: S99stop-bootlogd should be the very last rc2.d entry
  Message-ID: <20040107011726.GU23545@deadbeast.net>

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