On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 10:19:24PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 03:28:30PM +0400, Sergey B Kirpichev wrote: > > Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk>: > > >> Doesn't matter) rc.local shouldn't be used by local > > >> admin to start services from. Why not use usual init-script? > > > > > > I wouldn't be surprised if rc.local has been around longer than Debian > > > and is meant to run at the end. Particularly for a service that isn't > > > packaged it may be useful and expected to run last. > > > > Why you can't just write a regular init-script > > to start (and stop!) this service? rc.local is not flexible to this. > > Doesn't matter. rc.local is an interface that has been around since > forever, and which is *meant* for local admins to use.
But not to abuse this interface and use one in a wrong way. > Whether it is flexible or not may be true, but is irrelevant for this > discussion. No, we should not depend on it for Debian; but we should > provide the interface for system administrators who wish to use it, > because it is not Debian's place to tell them that they cannot use that > interface. The point is that I'm aware about such drawbacks of using Should-Start/Should-Stop $all for monit, but I don't see a better solution. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140218100036.ga19...@darkstar.order.hcn-strela.ru