On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 05:25:18PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Peter Eisentraut said: > > I have found that the following patch works better. It avoids slow-to-stop > > ntpd child processes messing the whole thing up, especially during a > > restart.
> Using --exec on stop is going to fail on some kinds of upgrades (a > restart in postinst, for instance) since the binary will have changed > after the upgrade. I have no idea if ntpd uses that sort of logic in > the maintainer scripts (I suspect not, from the output during upgrade), > but it does seem cleaner to use the normal pidfile method. Indeed, there is a bug against dpkg asking for --exec's behavior to be completely deprecated for this reason. There's no excuse for adding --exec in a new maintainer script. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
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