This bug came up in the DC18 rolling policy sprint (ie, I overheard Sean mentioning it).
ISTM that in days gone by this would have been (should have been) a wishlist item for invoke-rc.d. The interface was defined in invoke-rc.d(8) and README.policy-rc.d.gz. I am happy to fold policyrcd-script-zg2 into init-system-helpers, if some would care to submit a patch to do that. Please do that as a separate bug. Alternatively we could just let policyrcd-script-zg2 continue to exist. Nowadays, there is systemd too. I have no idea whether policyrcd-script-zg2 works with systemd. If it doesn't then I guess a more general interface ought to be defined. That might plausibly be a policy bug although it would probably be more sensible for people who want this feature across different init systems to try to design that. If systemd has a different way of achieving the same overall objective then maybe the answer is just that the admin must configure this differently depending on what init system they have. I hope this analysis is helpful. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.