Bug 246904

Summary:	Initscript Review
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Harald Hoyer <harald>
Component:	denyhosts	Assignee:	Jason Tibbitts <j>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	rawhide	CC:	dennis
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Description Harald Hoyer 2007-07-05 13:49:09 UTC

Please have a look at the wikipage 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FCNewInit/Initscripts
and change your initscripts to comply with the LSB standard.
Especially check the exit status and add a LSB Header.
E.g. starting a service should return with 0, if the service is already running and stopping a stopped service should also return with 0.

Also check, if your service has to be _on_ per default, and turn it off in the old chkconfig line, if not.

Thank you.

Comment 1 Jason Tibbitts 2007-08-24 19:15:48 UTC

I've fixed this in rawhide to the limits of my understanding.  The existing
documentation is terrible, and there's no list anywhere of what services we can
depend on.  Is it cron or crond?  sendmail or mta or something else?  Of course,
crond and sendmail scripts don't have LSB-compliant initscripts so it's
impossible to tell what they would have for "Provides:".

I honestly don't think these tickets should have been filed until at least the
basic system daemons had been fixed so we'd have something to look at.