Re: starting /etc/init.d/* from re-mountable media
Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> >From a directory on a Zip drive. Later on I was puzzled why I couldn't
> "umount" the Zip drive - it was because sysklogd had been run from there.
>
> This doesn't particularly bug me, but what do other people think - should
> all postinst scripts "cd" somewhere safe before running /etc/init.d/...?
I thought that it was common for daemons to cd / after they start up, to
eliminate this problem?Won't that fix it? I think it's reasonable to expect
daemons to have this behavior, and if syslogd or klogd doesn't, they are
broken.
>
> I've attached the bug report and Joey's reply below.
>
> ---cut-here---
> [joey@kuolema.Infodrom.North.DE: Re: Bug#17278: sysklogd: restart from root directory]
> On Mon, Jan 19, 1998 at 05:33:10PM +0000, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> > Package: sysklogd
> > Version: 1.3-21
> > Priority: wishlist
> >
> > I often install sysklogd from a zip drive like this:
> >
> > cd /zip
> > sudo dpkg -i sysklogd*
> > cd
> >
> > However afterwards I cannot umount the /zip drive as sysklogd is running. I
> > have to do "sudo /etc/init.d sysklogd restart" when $PWD is not in /zip and
> > then I can umount the drive.
> >
> > Perhaps you could do a "cd /" before restarting sysklogd, or maybe since I
> > am not using dselect this isn't supported?
>
> Only very few packages do this - to be honest, I only found msqld and
> roxen doing this. Roxen can only be started from a well-defined directory
> and msqld? I don't know why there is a "cd /tmp" when _stopping_ the
> program.
>
> I'm closing this bugreport.
>
> If you still want to change this you should go to debian-policy and
> start a proposal that every /etc/init.d scrips that support start/stop/restart
> etc. must have a defined "cd /some/whe/re" before starting the daemon.
> /some/whe/re should be /tmp if the package doesn't depend on a particular
> start path.
>
> ---cut-here---
>
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