On Sun, 06 Sep 2009, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > /etc/init.d/skeleton is mentioned in section 9.3.5 as an example to base init > scripts on. As you may know, it suppresses the calls to log_daemon_msg > ("Starting $DESC: $NAME") and log_end_msg ("." or " failed!") during start > and > stop if $VERBOSE = "no". > > Most init scripts do not follow this example, I believe. Section 9.4 makes no > mention of $VERBOSE. > > What's the best practice/consensus? Should policy be amended? Should > /etc/init.d/skeleton be fixed?
/etc/init.d/skeleton should be fixed. VERBOSE=no is supposed to be used to shut up the unimportant stuff (such as initscripts telling the user they didn't do anything because /etc/default/foo was not configured yet, etc). -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org