[Pm-utils] RFC - PATCH to functions.in to support Slackware init

Stefan Seyfried seife at suse.de
Tue Oct 7 16:16:44 PDT 2008


Dan Nicholson wrote:

> service is not LSB. It's just a wrapper that makes initializing

ok. I actually managed to avoid reading that spec until now ;)

> Robby's point about ambiguous service names is valid, though. Right
> now, we only call stopservice() for ntpd, but it could be called ntp
> or nettime or anything else since there's no convention for that.

But then, the hook that calls stopservice belongs in the ntpd package and not
in pm-utils anyway. And again, the packager of the to-be-stopped service knows
how his init script is named.
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