Bug 2987 - bug in apmd init script
Summary: bug in apmd init script
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
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Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: apmd
Version: 6.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: David Lawrence
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Reported: 1999-05-23 21:07 UTC by Ian Collier
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-07-01 21:29:15 UTC

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Description Ian Collier 1999-05-23 21:07:11 UTC 
I disagree with bug #1500.  If you quote the APMD_OPTIONS
then the shell will pass them as a single argument to the
apmd program.  Supposing /etc/sysconfig/apmd says

APMD_OPTIONS="-u -s /etc/apmd/suspend -r /etc/apmd/resume"

this will result in the following:

starbright:83-i# /etc/rc.d/init.d/apmd start
Starting up APM daemon: apmd /usr/sbin/apmd: invalid option
--
usage: apmd [-VvuW] [-p percent] [-w percent] [-c seconds]
            [-s pre_suspend_cmd] [-r post_resume_cmd]
            [-l low_battery_cmd]

The message occurs (I presume) because apmd sees the whole
command line as an argument to the -u flag, and the -u flag
doesn't take arguments.  Removing the quotes from
APMD_OPTIONS results in apmd being started correctly.

If it matters I am using apmd-3.0beta5-7 as taken from Red
Hat 6.0 and recompiled on Red Hat 5.1.

Ian Collier.
Comment 1 Ian Collier 1999-05-23 21:36:59 UTC 
On second thoughts it might be better to write:

eval "daemon /usr/sbin/apmd $APMD_OPTIONS"

because that allows the user to use quoted strings in APMD_OPTIONS.

imc
Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 1999-07-01 21:29:59 UTC 
works fine on RH6.0 here...
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