On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 04:45:04PM +0200, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote: > Package: nessusd > Severity: normal > > Note: Tested with 2.2.8-1 backport on Sarge. > > The Debian script to update Sys5 Init scripts is > update-rc.d(8). > > It fails for nessusd: > > # update-rc.d nessusd defaults > System startup links for /etc/init.d/nessusd already exist.
Correct.
> This error message is because the Debian nessusd package
> already installs a symlink for stopping the daemon:
True.
> but none for starting the daemon.
True again but that's easy to setup, see below:
> But lacks an explanation how to use the init script.
Using the init-script is easy just '/etc/init.d/nessusd start' and
you are done. If you want to have the init-scripts run on startup then
either run:
# update-rc.d -f remove nessusd
# update-rc.d nessusd defaults
or run:
# for rc in 3 4 5 ; do cd /etc/rc${rc}.d/ && ln -s ../init.d/nessusd
S20nessusd; done
I thought that was pretty obvious but if you think it is necessary I could
add it to the README file.
> Isn't it better to not install the stop-script for the runlevels by
> default?
No, since users might just want to start it up on demand and the system
should be able to stop it (properly, not through a SIGKILL) when it is
shutdown.
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