Bug#391183: dpkg: start-stop-daemon should hand up daemon exit code

2006-11-24 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 05:34:56AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
 On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 11:39:43 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
  Package: dpkg
  Version: 1.13.22
  Severity: wishlist
  
  There should be a possibility to get ahold of the exit code given by
  the binary invoked by start-stop-daemon.
 
 In which conditions would you want that? If the binary supports
 daemonization we can only get the exit code if it exits before the
 daemonization.

Yes, and that would be desireable. Some packages (ab)use s-s-d to
invoke a binary under a different account without creating syslog
entries that might be confusing to users, and when that binary returns
an exit code, we'd like to see it.

For example, /etc/cron.daily/exim4-base uses s-s-d to invoke
exim_tidydb as Debian-eim.

Greetings
Marc

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Bug#391183: dpkg: start-stop-daemon should hand up daemon exit code

2006-11-23 Thread Guillem Jover
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On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 11:39:43 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
 Package: dpkg
 Version: 1.13.22
 Severity: wishlist
 
 There should be a possibility to get ahold of the exit code given by
 the binary invoked by start-stop-daemon.

In which conditions would you want that? If the binary supports
daemonization we can only get the exit code if it exits before the
daemonization. If it does not support daemonization and we are using
s-s-d's background option then we can only get the exit code if we
keep the parent s-s-d running and waiting for the child, and then
I don't understand why we would want to use the background option.

Could you clarify?

regards,
guillem



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