Re: benefits of invoke-rc.d (was: Re: unsubscribe)

From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh (hmh_at_debian.org)
Date: 04/05/05

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    Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 11:34:02 -0300
To: David Landgren <david@landgren.net>

    On Tue, 05 Apr 2005, David Landgren wrote:
    > >>What is the advantage of using invoke-rc.d as opposed to using the
    > >>/etc/init.d/SCRIPT PARAM as I always did ?

    None, UNLESS you are doing it from a script or doing something unusual. I
    wrote invoke-rc.d to get the package maintainer scripts (the stuff dpkg runs
    when installing, updating or removing packages) to behave. Nothing else.

    > >You know, I'm not entirely sure what the reasoning is. The invoke-rc.d
    > >manpage says "All access to the init scripts by Debian packages'
    > >maintainer scripts should be done through invoke-rc.d." But I guess that
    > >doesn't really apply to end-users.

    Exactly. End users can do whatever they want to :-)

    > - A single entry point to make sure that vital environment variables
    > are sane. Could look elsewhere than /etc/init.d for scripts. (e.g.
    > /usr/local/etc to make FreeBSD'ers feel at home).

    That's mostly correct. invoke-rc.d is supposed to work ONLY with sysv-like
    init script systems, that means /etc/init.d/<script> must always work, and
    work correctly at that.

    > - invoke-rc.d could be aliased to 'service' (e.g. to make redhatters
    > feel at home).

    I'd rather someone wrote a service wrapper that actually behaves just like
    RedHat's instead... 

    -- 
  "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
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