Bug#843419: init-d-script: please provide a way to not use the --name option of start-stop-daemon

2019-03-05 Thread Dmitry Bogatov
[2019-03-01 15:20] wf...@niif.hu > > part text/plain 863 > Dmitry Bogatov writes: > > > What about this patch? Would it satisfy your need? > > Perfectly. The extra braces (${COMMAND_NAME}, ${NAME}) look somewhat > alien, but as you prefer. Good. > > Can you please

Bug#843419: init-d-script: please provide a way to not use the --name option of start-stop-daemon

2019-03-01 Thread wferi
Dmitry Bogatov writes: > What about this patch? Would it satisfy your need? Perfectly. The extra braces (${COMMAND_NAME}, ${NAME}) look somewhat alien, but as you prefer. > Can you please review wording -- I am very bad at writing manpages. I'm no native speaker either, but inserted a couple

Bug#843419: init-d-script: please provide a way to not use the --name option of start-stop-daemon

2019-02-26 Thread Dmitry Bogatov
control: tags -1 +patch [2019-02-24 13:24] wf...@niif.hu > > Dmitry Bogatov writes: > > Sorry, I do not understand. You, as init script writer, choose value of > > argument to $NAME. Why can't you limit it to required length? > [...] > > I imagine that having an optional COMM_NAME (pick any

Bug#843419: init-d-script: please provide a way to not use the --name option of start-stop-daemon

2019-02-24 Thread wferi
control: tags -1 -moreinfo Dmitry Bogatov writes: > Sorry, I do not understand. You, as init script writer, choose value of > argument to $NAME. Why can't you limit it to required length? Sorry, I indeed left out important context, thus even I had difficulty recalling the reason for my report

Bug#843419: init-d-script: please provide a way to not use the --name option of start-stop-daemon

2019-02-23 Thread Dmitry Bogatov
control: tags -1 +moreinfo [2016-11-06 16:04] Ferenc Wágner > Package: sysvinit-utils > Version: 2.88dsf-59 > Severity: wishlist > > Dear Maintainer, > > start-stop-daemon --name=name-longer-than-15-characters fails on Linux, > because of the 15-character limit on process names. Other kernels

Bug#843419: init-d-script: please provide a way to not use the --name option of start-stop-daemon

2016-11-06 Thread Ferenc Wágner
Package: sysvinit-utils Version: 2.88dsf-59 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, start-stop-daemon --name=name-longer-than-15-characters fails on Linux, because of the 15-character limit on process names. Other kernels have similar but different limits, see the conditionals starting at