On Friday 08 December 2006 19:58, Richard Fish wrote:
> On 12/8/06, David Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > When an initscript says it depends on logger, how does runscript find out
> > what tool provides logger?
>
> AFAIK, the "provide" settings in the init scripts themselves. 

I understand that's where it's defined, but what I meant was how does it find 
it.  Surely it's not running every script each time somebody depends on 
something.


> Try: 
> grep -E "provide.*logger" /etc/init.d/*

dcorbin init.d # grep -E "provide.*logger" /etc/init.d/*
/etc/init.d/syslog-ng:  provide logger

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