[Mageia-dev] LSB init scripts question.

Wed Apr 18 10:05:15 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and David W. Hodgins at 18/04/12 05:01 did gyre and gimble:
+> 
+> On my Mageia 1 system, I noticed that xinetd wasn't getting
+> started.  After comparing the lsb headers, I modified the
+> script as per the following patch, and confirmed that on
+> reboot, it's now getting started.
+> 
+> $ cat xinetd.patch
+> --- /etc/init.d/xinetd.original 2011-01-11 23:35:28.000000000 -0500
+> +++ /etc/init.d/xinetd  2012-04-17 23:38:19.507878097 -0400
+> @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
+>  # Provides: xinetd
+>  # Required-Start: $network $syslog
+>  # Required-Stop: $network $syslog
+> -# Default-Start: 345
+> +# Default-Start: 3 4 5
+>  # Short-Description: A powerful replacement for inetd
+>  # Description: This startup script launches xinetd daemon
+>  ### END INIT INFO
+
+Is that the only change you did? You didn't run a chkconfig command too
+or similar?
+
+I'm not an expert on the previous sysvinit but I thought that provided
+the links existed in /etc/rcN.d/S??xinetd then it should get started.
+prcsys might do things somewhat differently here tho', I don't know.
+
+> I was going to file a bug report, but decided to check other
+> files.  I found that udev-post and crond also are missing the
+> spaces.
+
+udev stuff is somewhat handled in rc.sysinit so likely not a big problem
+if it doesn't run...
+
+> udev-post does not get run at boot, as confirmed by
+> /var/lock/subsys/udev-post not existing, however crond is
+> getting started.
+> 
+> This doesn't make sense to me.  If the spaces are required,
+> how is crond still getting started, while xinetd and udev-post
+> are not?
+
+
+I suspect there is still something missing, can you check the symlinks
+for udev-post in the /etc/rcN.d folders. If they exist (i.e. there is a
+/etc/rc3.d/S??udev-post file) then does only changing the numbers and
+rebooting make it run at next boot.
+
+I suspect there is a little more to this story still :)
+
+Col
+
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