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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list